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

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From bunches of dried herbs and alcoholic elixirs to high-tech drugs and multi-million dollar businesses, this is the path taken by the medicines we take every day. Science journalist Thomas Hager decided to find out what brilliant discoveries and accidental discoveries gave us painkillers, contraceptives and antibiotics. This book is a biography of ten major drugs that have changed medicine. Among them you will not find "greatest hits", for example, penicillin or aspirin, because a lot has already been written about them. Instead, the author will introduce you to the amazing stories of lesser known but no less significant drugs and show their dual nature. You will visit the office of a medieval alchemist and a chemical laboratory, find out that you tried to treat with heroin, and also look into the future of drugs and realize how random coincidences can change the lives of entire generations.

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Barcode: 9785041540340 SKU: 70163741 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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