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Description: |
xv, 515 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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General Note: |
"A Wiley-Interscience publication." |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-465) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Plants in medicine -- "Injurious plants" -- Internal poisons -- Allergy -- Cell modifiers: mutagens, teratogens, and lectins -- "Remedial" plants -- Cancer -- Nervous system -- Heart and circulation -- Metabolism -- Special sensory organs: eye and ear -- Oral hygiene -- Gastrointestinal tract -- Respiratory system -- Urogenital system -- Skin -- Deterrents: antibiotics, antiseptics, and pesticides -- Panaceas -- "Psychoactive" plants -- Stimulants -- Hallucinogens -- Depressants. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: This book is designed to bring into perspective the massive knowledge acquired by man to retain his health by using the plants around him. Man's survival has been dependent on his innate curiosity, his desire to examine by trial and error all aspects of his environment, and to conclude which materials are remedial, which ones are harmful, and which give him the greatest nourishment. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Lewis, Walter Hepworth. Medical botany. New York : Wiley, ©1977 (OCoLC)690070697 |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780471533207.pdf |
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Index - Uncontrolled: |
Materia medica, Vegetable |
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Series Added Entry: |
Wiley-Interscience publication. |