Crocologia - a detailed study of saffron, the king of plants
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Crocologia
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Crocologia or A detailed study of Saffron, the king of plants including its etymology, species, the time when it emerges & flowers, cultivation, harvesting, mechanical pharmaceutical and chemical-medicinal uses intended for almost every part of the human body, with the addition of various observations and questions related to saffron
Crocologia
A detailed study of Saffron, the king of plants
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Druckschrift
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Brill
Ort:
Leiden
Date:
[2020]
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
"In Crocologia---A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants, Sally Francis and Maria Teresa Ramandi present the first translation into English of Johann Ferdinand Hertodt's seminal 1671 work Crocologia, a book uniquely devoted to the medical uses of saffron. Hertodt discusses saffron's origin, related species, cultivation, selection, properties and lists all its pharmaceutical preparations. Hertodt then journeys through diseases of the human body, presenting saffron-containing formulae for their treatment. The two authors complement the translation with a biography of Hertodt, and detail saffron's botany, current production, uses, its changing reputation as a drug, and review findings from new medical research. There is a full Glossary, and translation of a contemporary approbation of Crocologia by Hertodt's rival, Wenzel Maximilian Ardensbach"--
Object text:
[edited and translated] by Sally Francis, Maria Teresa Ramandi
"1 Crocologia and Its Author. 1.1 Johann Ferdinand Hertodt. Crocologia's author, Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld was a physician and a naturalist." (Introduction, ungezählte Seite 1)
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 286-298 (Seite 286 ungezählt)
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"1 Crocologia and Its Author. 1.1 Johann Ferdinand Hertodt. Crocologia's author, Johann Ferdinand Hertodt von Todtenfeld was a physician and a naturalist." (Introduction, ungezählte Seite 1)
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 286-298 (Seite 286 ungezählt)
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2023-07-04
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2020-12-16
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2023-07-04
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