A strange drug in a strange land

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 186-203

  Carrier, Neil ^a  

^a Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

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