| Series: | NA |
| Publisher: | NA |
| Genres: | Pharmacy, Microbiology |
| Authors: | Heinrich Michael |
| Pages: | 337 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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Worldwide, drugs derived from organisms continue
to be important for the treatment and prevention of
many diseases. Pharmacognosy, which is defined in
this book as ‘the science of biogenic or nature-derived
pharmaceuticals and poisons’, has been an established basic pharmaceutical science that has been
taught in institutions of pharmacy education for
about two centuries. This subject area has changed
considerably since its initiation, having metamorphosed from a largely descriptive botanical and
mycological field in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to having more of a chemical and biological focus
within the last 50 years or so.
