Abstract
IT has been well said that no branch of knowledge can be adequately understood without an acquaintance with its history, and this applies in full measure to a knowledge of drugs. The study of the history of drugs, cosmetics, balsams, unguents, spices, etc., from the earliest written records to the present time, is so intensely interesting as to make it appear strange that so few pharmacognosists have devoted themselves to it. True, Tschirch, Schelenz, and a few others have collected data, but they have, as a rule, failed to present them in an attractive form.
Drogen und Drogenhandel im Altertum.
Von Dr. Alfred Schmidt. Pp. viii + 136 + 8 Tafeln. (Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1924.) n.p.
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Drogen und Drogenhandel im Altertum . Nature 116, 389–390 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116389d0
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