Pills, Potions and Poisons - Stone, Trevor (Department of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Glasgow) a Darlington, L. Gail (Consultant Physician, Consultant Physician, Epsom General Hospital)

A reason given by patients for not taking their medications is that they feel unhappy about taking medicines which they do not understand. This text attempts to rectify this by showing in clear, non-technical language how medicines and other drugs work in the body to reduce the effects of disease.