Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 1, Issue 5 , Pages 389-392 , September 2005

Inflammation and Ethnomedicine: Looking to our Past

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doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2005.06.018

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 1, Issue 5 , Pages 389-392 , September 2005