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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1992]
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