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By John Mann. 232 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-855561-X.

Murder, Magic, and Medicine explores the links between the folk use of plant products and their modern applications in medicine; to a much lesser extent, it addresses products of nonvegetable origin. One chapter is devoted to each of the three uses mentioned in the title, with coverage stretching from the dawn of civilization to the present. In each chapter, Mann, an organic chemist, describes historical experiences with the drug, hallucinogen, or poison, and he discusses the mode of toxic, psychoactive, or therapeutic action.

This book perhaps tries to be too many things in a single work: a history of drugs, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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