Rhubarb : the wondrous drug /

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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Main Author: Foust, Clifford M., 1928-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
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Call Number: QV766 F688r 1992