Doctrine of Signatures: An explanation of medicinal plant discovery or Dissemination of knowledge?

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  2007

• Venue

  Economic Botany

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1663/0013-0001(2007)61[246:DOSAEO]2.0.CO;2
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