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dn39x06263t	Julianna Poole	Medicine, Then and Now: The Problem of Using Persistence as a Measure for Medical Efficacy	1904		.txt	text/plain	149	7	30	Modern Western biomedicine is in need of new drugs, and ethnopharmacologists are turning to premodern medical texts, such as the Anglo-Saxon Leechbooks, for remedies. In previous studies, historians have associated persistence of remedies in materia medica throughout the centuries with biomedical efficacy, but this association is problematic for two reasons.	cache/dn39x06263t.txt	txt/dn39x06263t.txt