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A little turmeric for your morning tea via Robert
Bentley's 1880 Medical Botany https://t.co/2yfG0tRVmU #histmed

These colorful types of mushrooms come from "Mushrooms, Russia, and History", by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson (1957). #naturalhistory #mushrooms

In preparation for his remarkable anatomy, Jean-Galbert Salvage (1770-1813) ordered a plaster cast of the Gladiator from the Musee Napoloen and worked it over, carving an anatomized interpretation into the plaster #histmed

Bear hug? Cuvier's ursine king of the iceberg has his opponent firmly pinned beneath him https://t.co/sQJNFQPEh3 #allthejanuaryfeels 1863

The Flemish anatomist Adrian van de Spiegel (1578-1625) died before he finished is anatomy text, de formation foetu liber singularis, with plates drawn by Fialetti, a student of Titian's #Histmed

Planning a big New Year's party? Impress your guests with these artistic dessert dishes from Theodore Francis Garrett's The Encyclopaedia of Practical Cookery (1898).

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This plate from William P. C. Barton's Vegetable Materia Medica (1817) features Chimaphila umbellata, also known as prince's pine, umbellate wintergreen, or pipsissewa. Although Barton was interested in its medicinal uses, this plant is also used to flavor root beer! #histmed

This trade card from our William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards advertises "seasonable suggestions" for medicines from D. Jayne and Son, a Philadelphia manufacturer, including Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, Liniment, Sanative Pills, and Tonic Vermifuge. #histmed

We'll take one of each, please! This page of sweets from Emile Herisse's "The Art of Pastry and Confectionery Making" has something for everyone. #histmed #cookery #baking

The Italian physician and author Fortunio Liceti expressed wonder and admiration--not horror-- at the monstrous creatures depicted in his 1616 book of prodigies #histmed