Modern medicines : the discovery and development of healing drugs

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Modern medicines : the discovery and development of healing drugs

Margery Facklam, Howard Facklam, and Sean M. Grady

(Science and technology in focus)

Facts On File, [2004]

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Healing drugs : the history of pharmacology

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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

New edition of: Healing drugs : the history of pharmacology / Margery Facklam and Howard Facklam. New York: Facts on File, c1992

Contents of Works

  • Ancient remedies
  • A garden of simples
  • Patent cures and medicine shows
  • Formalizing pharmacology
  • A world of wonder drugs
  • Preemptive strikes
  • Biological systems management
  • Miracles in the medicine cabinet
  • From the laboratory to the pharmacy
  • Producing modern pills and potions
  • New uses for old drugs
  • When drugs go wrong
  • Back to the Garden?
  • Herbalists and scientists
  • Warning signs
  • Drug-resistant germs
  • The perils of medicine
  • Distribution woes
  • Future trends in pharmacology

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