First discovered off the coast of Italy in 1989, archaeologists have finally analyzed well-preserved medicines recovered from a 2000-year-old Greek shipwreck and have found that ancient physicians were regularly prepraring tablets composed of a mixture of ten or more plant extracts, providing physical evidence for a science only previously known through their literature.
Monday, September 20, 2010
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