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origins of medicines

  • Joseph Lister
    In pharmaceutical industry: Medicines of ancient civilizations

    …for pain relief, and, while squill was used for a time as a cardiac stimulant, it is better known as a rat poison. Although many of the medicinal preparations used by Galen are obsolete, he made many important conceptual contributions to modern medicine. For example, he was among the first…

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