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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

for them and some they ride and some they eat. And
they have other uses for them, and milk to drink. So
will they not be thankful? (Surah Ya Sin, 71-73)

2)Living Things Used in Drug Production

Thousands of micro-organisms, fungi, plant and animal

species are being used in the treatment of various illnesses.
Many drugs are prepared with chemical substances obtained
from living things or duplications of these substances in lab-
oratories. For example, aspirin—an analgesic painkiller fa-
miliar to just about everyone, comes from the bark of the
willow tree. Quinine, used to treat malaria for the last 70
years, is found in the roots and bark of the cinchona tree.

More than 20,000 species of plant are today employed for
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medicinal purposes. According to Professor Norman
Farnsworth of Illinois University, plants represent the main
source of medicines for some 3.5 to 4 billion people. 109
The use of living things, most of whose names we have
never even heard of, is increasing every day in the medical
and pharmaceutical industries. Taxol, used against breast
and ovarian cancer, is obtained from the bark of the north
American yew tree. Squalamine, which prevents the devel-

opment ofcancer, comes from the liver of a species of shark;
digitalis, an adjunct treatment for people with heart failure,

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