pharmacopoeia

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

From Science Magazine • Sep. 7, 2022

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

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

In 2003 psychiatrist and environmentalist Eric Chivian of Harvard University described these sea creatures as having “the largest and most clinically important pharmacopoeia of any genus in nature.”

From Scientific American • Jan. 22, 2013

Antibilious pills—whatever they may mean—Seidlitz powders, effervescing waters, and all that pharmacopoeia of aids to further indigestion, in which the afflicted who nurse their own diseases so liberally and innocently indulge, are tried in vain.

From Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)