Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts.
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.
Holland
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Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103.
D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal