A review by achuna2
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The implications of past medical discoveries on present day practices and diagnosis systems of modern medicine cast both a sense of urgency and awe. Awe in the sense of the purely speculative and seemingly lucky incidents that lead to further study and urgency because much of the mistakes or omissions of the past are still part of the cyclical patterns of problems found within present day research and treatment.