Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects papers written by the eleven experts from six countries who attended this symposium on "Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine" jointly sponsored by Harvard and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May, 1968. These papers are notable for the fact that they used "widely differing disciplines in focusing on the single topic. In stressing this interdisciplinary outlook in its organization, the symposium successfully drew into an integrated whole the contributions and potentialities of anthropological, botanical, chemical, pharmaceutical, and other pertinent fields." Illustrated with photographs, numerous diagrams and charts. References, index xii, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-674673301.