In the ancient world there were known many chemical substances derivated from estblished plants which were used as a medicaments and drugs in a similar way. Linkage relationship between them, pharmaceutical service and social status was set since the aerliest times. Ritual consumationof these derivates afforded first opportunity for essencial monitoring and supervision of drug abuse. Development of the rational surgery in the pre-classical and classical Greece suceeded to the control forasmuch as secular physicians and healers detached from privileged religious and devotional section.
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Drug Trade in the Classical Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean Area
In the ancient world there were known many chemical substances derivated from estblished plants which were used as a medicaments and drugs in a similar way. Linkage relationship between them, pharmaceutical service and social status was set since the aerliest times. Ritual consumationof these derivates afforded first opportunity for essencial monitoring and supervision of drug abuse. Development of the rational surgery in the pre-classical and classical Greece suceeded to the control forasmuch as secular physicians and healers detached from privileged religious and devotional section.
In the ancient world there were known many chemical substances derivated from estblished plants which were used as a medicaments and drugs in a similar way. Linkage relationship between them, pharmaceutical service and social status was set since the aerliest times. Ritual consumationof these derivates afforded first opportunity for essencial monitoring and supervision of drug abuse. Development of the rational surgery in the pre-classical and classical Greece suceeded to the control forasmuch as secular physicians and healers detached from privileged religious and devotional section.