Pharmacology ancient history

Gleaning from herbal medicine the genesis of pharmacology (digitalis salicylic acid—aspirin morphine quinine artemisinin reserpine taxol). Ancient history-present. 

Additional clues as far as the chemical and pharmacological properties of plants can be found in the historical sources. To end this section, we would like to analyze briefly some of those reports in the "Libellus" and in the History of Plants from New Spain by Hernandez that have been confirmed or largely overlooked in past chemical and pharmacological studies. The careful analysis of these ancient reports today could suggest new strategies in the investigation of Montanoa s phytochemicals. 

I would like to thank my colleagues for their contributions to this book. In addition I owe a great debt to two previous authors, both from the School of Pharmacy at Strathclyde - Professor John Stenlake, whose two textbooks on molecular pharmacology contain a huge amount of fundamental information, and Dr Walter Sneader, whose books Drug Prototypes and Their Exploitation and Drug Discovery provide the ultimate authority of the history of dmg discovery from ancient times into the modem era. 

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