Nature's healing arts
Subtitle: from folk medicine to modern drugs
By: by Lonnelle Aikman ; photographs by Nathan Benn and Ira Block ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.
Contributors: National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division
Publisher: The Society
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Materia medica, Vegetable; Traditional medicine; Pharmacognosy
Notes: Includes index

Bibliography: p. 196
Table of contents: value: Folk medicine : an enduring art; value: Legacies from the past; value: Dawn of modern medicine; value: Ancience scourges held at bay; value: Toward a conquest of old killers; value: In pursuit of health.