Pills, potions and poisons : how drugs work /

Stone, Trevor.

Pills, potions and poisons : how drugs work / Pills potions poisons Trevor Stone and Gail Darlington. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. - xvi, 476 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes glossary of terms, bibliography (p. [447]-449) and index.

This book is written for the lay person and makes interesting reading. The drugs that most people are likely to come into contact with are described in easy-to-read style. The history of how many common drugs were discovered is also related.


Drugs--Popular works.