Drugs and Medicines: Where They Come From
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Outlines the types of drugs and medicines that come from plants, minerals, animals, and synthetic sources. Points out that iodine is produced from kelp, aspirin from willow bark, digitalis from foxglove, salves and ointments come from petroleum, and milk of magnesia comes from magnesium. Pictures vaccines being produced from animal antibodies, the laboratories where synthetic drugs are made, and how testing is done. Emphasizes that drugs are tested before they are mass produced.
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