It All Depends on the Dose
Grell, Ole Peter / Cunningham, Andrew / Arrizabalaga, Jon
This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation of medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can t