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Pharmacognosy

Here are entered works on the study of the properties, preparation, and uses of drugs from natural sources. Works on the science of drugs, including their chemistry, actions, and effects are entered under Pharmacology. Works on the study of the use made of substances for medical purposes by particular societies or ethnic groups are entered under Ethnopharmacology.

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• A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy (4th edition; Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., c1917), by Lucius E. Sayre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Traité des Simples (Arabic passages with French translation and commentary; 3 parts (Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale t. 23, 25, and 26); Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1877-1883), by 'Abd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bayṭār, ed. by Lucien Leclerc (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Monsoons to Microbes: Understanding the Ocean's Role in Human Health, by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Appraisal of the Safety of Chemicals in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics (Austin, TX: Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States, 1959), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• The AAPS Journal (full serial archives)

• From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Drug Infusion Therapy Under Medicare (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Assessing Selected Respiratory Therapy Modalities: Trends and Relative Costs in the Washington, D.C., Area (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy: Report of the Committee Appointed for That Purpose (1853), by American Provers' Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment (1995), ed. by Richard A. Rettig and Adam Yarmolinsky (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Bioavailability of Drugs to the Brain and Blood-Brain Barrier, ed. by Jerry Frankenheim and Roger M. Brown (PDF at NIH)

• Membranes and Barriers: Targeted Drug Delivery, ed. by Rao S. Rapaka (PDF at NIH)

• Behavioral Tolerance: Research and Treatment Implications, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Behavioral Tolerance: Research and Treatment Implications, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Problems of Drug Dependence 1994: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Inc,, by College on Problems of Drug Dependence
  • volume I: PDF at NIH
  • volume II: PDF at NIH

• Lectures of Pharmacy: Exhibiting Exact Rules for Prescribing (London: Printed for J. Noon, 1744), by Hieronymus David Gaubius (page images at NIH)

• Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory: Further Adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, Now Living in the Said Colledg: Being That Book by Which All Apothecaries are Bound to Make Up All the Medicines in Their Shops (London: Printed by Peter Cole, 1665), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at NIH)

• A Guide to Health: or, Advice to Both Sexes in a Variety of Complaints; With an Essay on the Venereal Disease, Gleets, Seminal Weakness, and That Destructive Habit Called Onanism; Likewise, An Address to Parents, Tutors, and Guardians of Youth (mainly promoting the author's preparation, Cordial balm of Gilead; London: Printed for the author, ca. 1797), by Samuel Solomon (page images at NIH)
• Nature's Assistant to the Restoration of Health In a Variety of Complaints: To Which Is Added, an Address to Parents, Tutors, and Schoolmasters, With Advice to Young Men and Boys, Respecting a Destructive Habit of a Private Nature (13th edition; London: Printed by E. Hodson, 1794), by James Hodson (page images at NIH)
• Nature's Assistant to the Restoration of Health; To Which is Added a Short Treatise on the Venereal Disease, Recommending a Safe, Easy, and Proper Mode of Treatment; Also, an Essay on Gleets, Seminal Weaknesses, and the Destructive Habit of Self-Pollution (6th edition; London: J. Matthews, 1789), by James Hodson (page images at NIH)
• Nature's Assistant to the Restoration of Health; To Which is Added a Short Treatise on the Venereal Disease, Recommending a Safe, Easy, and Proper Mode of Treatment; Also, an Essay on Gleets, Seminal Weaknesses, and a Destructive Habit of a Private Nature (11th edition; London: E. Hodson, 1791), by James Hodson (page images at NIH)
• The New Dispensatory: The Whole Interspersed with Practical Cautions and Observations (sixth edition; London: Printed for F. Wingrave et al., ca. 1799), by William Lewis (page images at NIH)

• Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica, Together With a Summary of Therapeutic Indications and a Classification of Medicaments (first edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1899) (centenary facsimile reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1901 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Practicing Physician and Surgeon (second edition of the Merck Manual; New York and Chicago: Merck and Co., c1901) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's 1905 Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (third edition of the Merck Manual; New York: Merck and Co., c1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fourth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica: A Ready-Reference Pocket Book for the Physician and Surgeon (fifth edition; St. Louis et al.: Merck and Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Analysis of Marijuana Policy, by National Research Council Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Drug-Acceptor Interactions (c2008), by Niels Bindslev (PDF and illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription Drugs (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Drug Bioequivalence (1974), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Testing Drugs for Physical Dependence Potential and Abuse Liability, ed. by Joseph V. Brady and Scott E. Lukas (PDF at NIH)

• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)

• The British Pharmaceutical Codex: An Imperial Dispensatory, for the Use of Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists (first edition; London: Pharmaceutical Society, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (in English and Spanish; c2011), by Global Commission on Drug Policy (PDF files at globalcommissionondrugs.org)
• Drugs and Terrorism, 1984: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Investigation of the Link Between Drugs and Terrorism, August 2, 1984 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the U.S. (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1978), by Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman, and Jeffrey Steinberg (PDF at wlym.com)

• The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)
• War-Time Cook and Health Book (ca. 1917), by Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company (page images at Duke)
• The Great American Fraud: A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted From Collier's Weekly (ca. 1906), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Physical Pharmacy: Physical Chemical Principles in Pharmaceutical Science (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1960), by Alfred N. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Technology and Chemistry of Alkaloids (New York et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1950), by Frank E. Hamerslag (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chemistry of Plant Constituents (revised edition; Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1943), by Ole Gisvold and Charles H. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intellectual Property and Public Health in the Developing World (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Mohammad Monirul Azam (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Psychedelic Review (full serial archives)

• The Seven Sisters of Sleep: Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World (London: J. Blackwood, ca. 1860), by M. C. Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pharmaceutical Selling, "Detailing", and Sales Training (second edition; Scarsdale, NY: Heathcote-Woodbridge, 1959), by Arthur F. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Study and Stimulants: or, The Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life (1883), ed. by A. Arthur Reade (Gutenberg text)

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