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

“I’ve read many pharmacopoeia, and none of them record the medical function of manta ray gills,” said Li Junde, a traditional medicine researcher at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 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

Its recommendation of antimony had such an effect upon medical practice that it continued to be the most important drug in the pharmacopoeia down almost to the middle of the nineteenth century.

From Catholic Churchmen in Science by Walsh, James J.