Rhubarb : : The Wondrous Drug / / Clifford M. Foust.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Roots of Rhubarb
- CHAPTER TWO. The Very True Rhubarb: The Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER THREE. The Russian Rhubarb Trade
- CHAPTER FOUR. The East India Company and European Trade
- CHAPTER FIVE. Collecting and Systematizing
- CHAPTER SIX. Accommodating the Root: The Society of Arts and Other Promotions
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Rhubarb as Medicine: The Eighteenth Century
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Search Ends?
- CHAPTER NINE. The Testing of Rhubarb
- CHAPTER TEN. Tarts and Wine
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index