pharmacopoeia

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Fortunately, Borneo’s rich biodiversity offers a vast pharmacopoeia.

From Science Magazine

She added, “There’s a pharmacopoeia out there waiting to be explored.”

From New York Times

Greek physician, wrote in his famous five-volume pharmacopoeia of plants and their medicines, “De Materia Medica”: “The Herb Scorpius resembleth the tail of the Scorpion, and is good against his bitings.”

From New York Times

He saw his “pharmacopoeia” of medicinal plants, lavender, daffodils, sea kale and wild bees as therapy, and, in an interview for British television a year before his death, said: “I should’ve been a gardener.”

From New York Times

Later, the pharmacopoeia expanded to include large and complex proteins—from insulin to monoclonal antibodies.

From The New Yorker