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Lynne Cherry, Mark J. Plotkin
318 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0670831379
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Language: English
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For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves...
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Lynne Cherry, Mark J. Plotkin
318 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0670831379
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves...