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The practice of using chemicals to treat cancer traces back to ancient times. Dioscorides (left) mentioned the application of colchicine for cancer treatment in his comprehensive pharmacological encyclopedia, De Materia Medica, around 70 C.E. More than 800 years before Lissauer discovered the anticancer potential of Fowlers solution, the Persian physician Avicenna (right) implemented arsenic as an anticancer remedy.
