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Poison or Medicine? How Plants, Powders, and Pills Shaped the History of Medicine

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Poison or Medicine? How Plants, Powders, and Pills Shaped the History of Medicine
14.99 €
From bundles of dried herbs and alcoholic elixirs to high-tech drugs and multimillion-dollar businesses, the medicines we take every day have come a long way. Science journalist Thomas Hedger set out to unravel the ingenious discoveries and chance finds that have given us painkillers, birth control, and antibiotics. This book is a biography of ten of the most important drugs that changed medicine. Among them you will not find "greatest hits" such as penicillin or aspirin, for much has already been written about them. Instead, the author will introduce you to the amazing stories of lesser-known but no less important drugs and show their dual nature. You will visit the office of a medieval alchemist and a chemical laboratory, learn that they tried to treat heroin, and also look into the future of drugs and realize how coincidences can change the lives of entire generations.
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