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January 01, 2007: Rare Book Helps Create "New" Drug
"And in a report in the British Medical Journal this month, they explain how a 300-year-old text by a Dutch naturalist named Rumphius could help scientists in their search for new and better drugs."
"'It was lost traditional knowledge,' Buenz said."
