The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the by Michael C. Gerald PDF

By Michael C. Gerald

ISBN-10: 1402782640

ISBN-13: 9781402782640

Throughout heritage, people in all places have looked for treatments to heal bodies and minds. overlaying every little thing from historic herbs to state of the art chemical compounds, this ebook within the highly well known Milestones sequence appears at 250 of an important moments within the improvement of life-altering, life-saving, and occasionally life-endangering prescription drugs. Illustrated entries characteristic old medicines like alcohol, opium, and hemlock; the smallpox and the polio vaccines; homeopathic remedies; and arguable scientific remedies like ether, amphetamines, and Xanax—while shining a gentle at the scientists, medical professionals, and firms who introduced them to us.

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