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Rhubarb - The Wondrous Drug (Hardcover)
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Rhubarb - The Wondrous Drug (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb
spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry
from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however,
had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans'
efforts to acquire it and to master its special botanical and
chemical properties. Here Clifford Foust presents the remarkable
efforts of the explorers, traders, botanists, gardeners,
physicians, and pharmacists who tried to adapt rhubarb for
convenient use in Europe. His is an intriguing tale of how humans
and their institutions have been affected by natural realities they
do not entirely comprehend. Readers interested in the history of
medicine, pharmaceutics, botany, or horticulture will be fascinated
by this once-perplexing plant: highly valued by physicians for its
cathartic properties, rhubarb resisted revealing its active
chemical principles, had many widely varying species, and did not
breed true by seed. This history includes sections on the
geographic and economic importance of rhubarb--which explain how
the plant became a major state monopoly for Russia and an important
commodity for the East India companies--and a discussion of
rhubarb's emergence as an international culinary craze during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
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Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Princeton Legacy Library |
Release date: |
April 2016 |
First published: |
1992 |
Authors: |
Clifford M. Foust
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Trade binding
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Pages: |
394 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-63053-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Other branches of medicine >
Pharmacology >
General
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LSN: |
0-691-63053-4 |
Barcode: |
9780691630533 |
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