Author: Fernando Altamirano
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Category : Materia medica
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: FERNANDO. ALTAMIRANO
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ISBN: 9781033431856
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Fernando Altamirano
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295365753
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Materia Medica Mexicana: A Manual Of Mexican Medicinal Herbs Fernando Altamirano Mexican National Commission, 1904 Materia medica; Medicinal plants

Author: Fernando Altamirano
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781297987335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Fernando Altamirano
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331966299
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Excerpt from Materia Medica Mexicana: A Manual of Mexican Medicinal Herbs It is based upon the extensive studies published in the Datos para la Materia Medica Mexicana, by the Mexican National Medical Institute from which I have extracted what seemed to me most important for medico-pharmaceutical application. I have also added other data, some from my own works, some from scientific works published bv the personnel of the Insti tute, and still others from sources which I shall mention in their proper places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John M. Riddle
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292729847
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self-evident): he failed to describe his method for organizing drugs by their affinities. This omission led medical authorities to use his materials as a guide to pharmacy while overlooking Dioscorides' most valuable contribution—his empirically derived method for observing and classifying drugs by clinical testing. Dioscorides' De materia medica, a five-volume work, was written in the first century. Here revealed for the first time is the thesis that Dioscorides wrote more than a lengthy guide book. He wrote a great work of science. He had said that he discovered the natural order and would demonstrate it by his arrangement of drugs from plants, minerals, and animals. Until John M. Riddle's pathfinding study, no one saw the genius of his system. Botanists from the eighteenth century often attempted to find his unexplained method by identifying the sequences of his plants according to the Linnean system but, while there are certain patterns, there remained inexplicable incoherencies. However, Dioscorides' natural order as set down in De materia medica was determined by drug affinities as detected by his acute, clinical ability to observe drug reactions in and on the body. So remarkable was his ability to see relationships that, in some cases, he saw what we know to be common chemicals shared by plants of the same and related species and other natural product drugs from animal and mineral sources. Western European and Islamic medicine considered Dioscorides the foremost authority on drugs, just as Hippocrates is regarded as the Father of Medicine. They saw him point the way but only described the end of his finger, despite the fact that in the sixteenth century alone there were over one hundred books published on him. If he had explained what he thought to be self-evident, then science, especially chemistry and medicine, would almost certainly have developed differently. In this culmination of over twenty years of research, Riddle employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.

Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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Author: Bobette Perrone
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806175206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the relationship between illness and healing-medical practitioners and historians, patients, anthropologists, feminists, psychologists, psychiatrists, theologians, sociologists, folklorists, and others who seek understanding about our relationship to the forces of both illness and healing.

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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Author: C E Flores
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ISBN: 9781070523620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Curanderos (healers) in Mexico still practice traditional herbal remedies learned centuries ago. It is only recently that scientists have begun to take these healing practices seriously. Study after study has validated the medicinal use of plants native to North America as well as some brought by the Spanish after the conquest. It's time to reexamine the basic healing power in 34 common herbs used by traditional Mexican healers.