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Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts

Nature
DOI: 10.1038/369702a0
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The mass screening of plants in the search for new drugs is vastly expensive and inefficient. It would be cheaper and perhaps more productive to re-examine plant remedies described in ancient and mediaeval texts. © 1994 Nature Publishing Group.

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Holland, B. K. (1994). Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/369702a0

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