Drugs, poisons and the contents of your doctor鈥檚 bag: they鈥檙e all the same
brew. John Mann鈥檚 wonderfully readable Murder, Magic and Medicine, now out in a
revised edition, tracks the substances from shaman to pharmacy, and poisoned
arrow to junkie鈥檚 hypodermic. Published by Oxford University Press, 拢9.99,
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