title: Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103.
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Holland
mesh_terms: D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal