The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines by Ogi Ogas, Donald R. Kirsch

The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

Ogi Ogas, Donald R. Kirsch with James Anderson Foster (Narrator)

7 hours, 35 minutes first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful ...

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