Vons J
Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 2001;49(332):501-12.
The study of Greek Mythology fully justifies Herophilus's phrase: "Medicines are the hands of Gods" (third cent. B.C.). A number of Gods are said to be the inventors of the drugs which are useful to men. Their names are still alive in the scholarly or popular appellations of a great many medicinal herbs. However, insofar as the action of a drug (of a Pharmakon) remains mysterious, one finds it in essentially female practices as well as in medicine. The study of these ancient beliefs, which have survived in spite of the progress of twentieth century science, can develop the history of epistemology of pharmacy by stimulating interdisciplinary research.
“药物是神之手”（公元前三世纪）。据说有许多神是对人类有用的药物的发明者。他们的名字仍然存在于许多药草的学术或通俗名称中。然而，就药物（药剂）的作用仍然神秘而言，人们在本质上的女性实践以及医学中都能发现它。尽管二十世纪科学取得了进步，但这些古老信仰依然存在，对它们的研究可以通过激发跨学科研究来发展药学认识论的历史。
