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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lewis, Walter Hepworth. Medical botany. New York : Wiley, c1977 (OCoLC)690070697 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Hepworth Lewis; Memory P F Elvin-Lewis |
| ISBN: | 0471533203 9780471533207 0471861340 9780471861348 |
| OCLC Number: | 2463636 |
| Notes: | "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes index. |
| Description: | xv, 515 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Walter H. Lewis, Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis. |
Abstract:
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 curiousity, 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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- Materia medica, Vegetable.
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