From Sir John W. Dawson’s The Story of the Earth and Man (1883).
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From The Retail Druggist of Canada (1913).
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From Eleanour S. Rohde’s The old English herbals (1922).
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Digital Highlights: Gardens and Gardening
The gardeners among us have been planning their Spring 2013 gardening for months now. There are plenty of plants that can be prepared for the season before; perennials can be trimmed up and put to bed; beds for other plants can be prepared; the work is more or less endless if you want it to be. Just about now, too, the seed and plant companies start sending out their temptingly colored works for the creation of gardening wish-lists.
These works aren’t quite as colorful as, say, Burpee’s shiny Technicolor productions, but they provide valuable insight into the intersection between medicine, science, and gardening at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th. Continue reading
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From Frederic A. Lucas and the American Museum of Natural History’s joint Animals of the Past (1922).
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From John Rennie’s Studies in Parasitology and General Zoology (1923).
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From the British Medical Association, American Medical Association, and Henry S. Wellcome joint publication, Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft (1912).
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From Nicholas Culpeper’s Culpeper’s complete herbal : consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly all herbs with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them (1880).
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From John Butler’s Electricity in Surgery (1882).
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From Ambrose Blacklock’s A treatise on sheep; the best means for their improvement, general management, and the treatment of their diseases. With a chapter on wool, and history of the wool trade, and the management of sheep in Australia (1853).
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