Mycology and Medicine
- 1 January 1961
- Vol. 53 (1) , 1-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3756126
Abstract
This lecture, the Twelfth Annual Lecture of the Mycological Society of America, reviews historical and current relationships between mycology and medicine. Some crude fungus preparations which were reputed by ancient physicians to be panaceas were still listed in pharmacopoeias of the twentieth century. The toxic fungi have been used intentionally or accidentally since earliest recorded history. The hallucinogenic fungi are now being studied by pharmacologists. The vast antibiotic industry and the observations and discoveries of medical mycology provide the closest links between mycology and medicine. The general aspects of these developing subjects are reviewed.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC STUDIES ON A NEW ANTIFUNGAL AGENT, X-5079C, EFFECTIVE AGAINST SYSTEMIC MYCOSESPublished by Elsevier ,1961
- The Jekyll-Hydes of MycologyMycologia, 1960