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What is Guaiacum and how was it connected to Syphilis?

1 May 2018September 29, 2018
In a previous post, I discussed how syphilis got its name from a poem written in 1530. The shepherd Syphilis was struck down with the venereal disease for overturning the altars dedicated…
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How Syphilis got its Name

9 Mar 2018September 29, 2018
Compared to today, syphilis was a different disease in early-modern Europe. It was more ferocious, fast acting, and destructive.  Symptoms included painful and often deadly rashes and ulcers on the…
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“The Man who did not Believe in Unicorns”

14 Nov 2017September 29, 2018
In previous posts I discussed the belief in the existence of unicorns and the medicinal virtues of their horns, however, there were some people in the early-modern period who did…
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Monardes and Gerard

18 Jul 2017September 29, 2018
In a previous post, I described how Nicolas Monardes’ description of sassafras laid the foundation for future authors to understand the physical and medicinal properties of the sassafras and its…
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How were the English Introduced to Sassafras?

11 Jul 2017October 2, 2018
The introduction of sassafras to the English imagination took a circuitous route.  Printed knowledge of the tree probably first appeared in English through the publishing of Joyfull Newes out of…
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Indian uses of Sassafrass

17 Nov 2016September 29, 2018
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is a small deciduous tree native to eastern North America with green apetalous flowers and dimorphous leaves.  It grows to roughly 20 feet tall and its wood…

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