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...Varro Tyler has written some of the most comprehensive guides, including The Honest Herbal and Herbs of Choice (Haworth Press; $40-$50). For a more folksy but still informative survey, try James Duke's The Green Pharmacy (Rodale; $30). Hard-core herbalists can delve into the first English translation of The Complete German Commission E Monographs ($190), a 685-page scientific tome just published by the American Botanical Council. It will soon be joined by the American Pharmaceutical Association Practical Guide to Natural Medicines (William Morrow; $35) and a PDR for Herbal Medicines (Medical Economics...
...just the reverse of everything we believe according to the basic principles of physiology," declares Professor Varro Tyler of Purdue University, an expert on herbal remedies. "We believe that the greater the dose, the greater the physiological response. They believe that even after there is no drug left, you still get a response...
...JOSEPH VARRO El Paso...
...light had shone from one of history's great treasure houses, which was a library and a school as well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance scholars as Giovanni Boccaccio browsed and pilfered. Adalhard, Charlemagne's cousin, became a monk at Monte Cassino. So did Paul the Deacon, to whom Charlemagne wrote, in a letter, a phrase which epitomizes the abbey: Est nam certa quies fessis venientibus illuc-"For there is certain rest for the weary...
...Fairfax Harrison, 68, onetime 1913-37) president of Southern Railway Co.; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Railroader Harrison was by avocation a scholar who: 1) researched U. S. racehorse genealogies; 2) published, under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer," a book Roman Farm Management, translations of agricultural commentaries by Vergil, Varro, Cato...