Publisher's Synopsis
Drugs with which to treat diseases, venoms to hunt and kill, narcotics, aromas, materials, dyes... Nature contains an abundance of all of this be relatively familiar to the reader, such as penicillin, morphine, rubber or cocaine, and others will not, although that does not mean that their importance is less. Perhaps they enjoyed popularity at the time, and their wake was lost along the way, or they are illustrious unknowns whose worth would deserve greater repercussions. Delve into the fabulous history of drugs, medicines and poisons from one of its greatest connoisseurs, the chemist David Sucunza. This work narrates the enormous impact that some natural products have had on our history. And it does so through twenty-five illustrative chapters, filled with diverse and intertwined knowledge: chemistry tells us about their structure, biology about their function in the organisms that originate them, medicine deals with the effect that many of them provoke in the human being, anthropology about their use by traditional societies, history relates their importance in the evolution of our civilization and economy deals with the role they have played in international trade. All these aspects together make up the suggestive crucible from which the pages of this amazing trip to Drugs, Medicines and Venoms drink.
