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The Story of Ergot
Responsible for epidemics such as Saint Antony"s fire through the ages, used by midwives to hasten labor and induce abortion, and containing the alkaloids from which the hallucinogen LSD was first synthesized, the ergot has many fascinating sides, all presented in this "excellent book" (JAMA 1970), together with the chemistry, biosynthesis, physiology, pharmacology and clinical uses of the fungus, in a simple enjoyable manner as the author intended. (A Karger ""Publishing Highlights 1890–2015"" title.)
Eve’s Herbs
In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve’s Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal clima...
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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The United States Pharmacopeia, the National Formulary
The USP–NF is a combination of two compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). It contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, biologics, compounded preparations, medical devices, dietary supplements, and other therapeutics. The current version of USP–NF standards deemed official by USP are enforceable by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for medicines manufactured and marketed in the United States.
Healing with Plants in the American and Mexican West
Are any of these plants dangerous, and do any of them really work? Where did they come from, and where are they available now? How can health-care practitioners gain the confidence of their patients to learn whether they are using alternative medicines for specific illnesses, symptoms, or injuries? Perhaps most intriguing, which of these plants might be waiting to take the place of known antibiotics as pathological organisms become increasingly resistant to modern miracle drugs?
