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Medicine Quest : in Search of Nature's Healing Secrets by Mark J. Plotkin; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson] is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Medicine Quest : in Search of Nature's Healing Secrets about?

"Plotkin highlights the ironic marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology and details discoveries that are already producing stunning leads in the laboratory: painkillers from the skin of rain forest frogs, anticoagulants from leech saliva, and antitumor agents from snake venom. Medicine Quest is a historical odyssey as well: Plotkin provides fascinating background on the centuries-old pursuit of cures that ranges from ancient Egyptian expeditions to foreign lands in search of healing plants, to the nineteenth-century development of aspirin; from willow bark that gave birth to the modern pharmaceutical industry, to the extraction of penicillin from fungi that helped determine the outcome of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.

Who reads Medicine Quest : in Search of Nature's Healing Secrets?

Author

Mark J. Plotkin; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson]

Publisher

Viking Adult

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670869374

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Medicine

Rating

3.92 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14