pharmacopoeia

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

From Science Magazine • Sep. 7, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

He published his findings in a pharmacopoeia eventually known as “De Materia Medica,” a standard reference for the next 1,500 years.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016

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

Purgatives and diuretics are given by another, and some will be found ready to empty the whole pharmacopoeia into the poor sufferer's stomach if he can be got to open his mouth wide enough.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey