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The Botanic Garden - Your Modern Medicine Cabinet

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Botanic Garden
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The first talk in the series from the Oxford Botanic Garden. This talk will describe the development of this new area as well as explaining the involvement of some of the plants grown there in the discovery and development of modern drugs.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Botanic Garden
People
Alison Foster
Keywords
Medicine
Health
botany
gardening
botanic gardens
Department: Botanic Garden
Date Added: 15/11/2010
Duration: 01:01:32

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