Curious Lore of Drugs and Medicines
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0766135462 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 732 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
A masterpiece. Bruce D. Clayton LaWall's history of pharmacy (four thousand years, two and a half inches thick) is amazingly detailed. It presents hundreds of researchers down through the ages, discusses their publications and discoveries, and casts historical light on their relationships to one another. Do not mistake it for a "history of pharmacy." It is a "history of all of science" with a special inte