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Pharmacy Island.
- Source :
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Newsweek . Summer2005 Special Edition, Vol. 145 Issue 26A, p54-58. 4p. 6 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Reports on how modern medicine is increasingly turning towards plants and animals in tropical regions for treatments for diseases. Use of the venom from a cone snail in the treatment of chronic pain; Extraction of compounds from the plants and animals which are tested on cancer cells; Past use of plants in medicine; How aspirin is derived from the bark of the willow tree.
- Subjects :
- *MEDICINE
*THERAPEUTICS
*MEDICINAL plants
*ANIMALS
*CHRONIC diseases
*CHRONIC pain
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00289604
- Volume :
- 145
- Issue :
- 26A
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Newsweek
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 17424898