American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic

Johnson, Victoria, 1969- author.

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"One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. "Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age" (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). What remains today of...

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Botany, Medical United States

Hosack, David, 1769-1835

Medical botanists United States Biography

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ISBN:

9781631496011
9781631494192

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-436) and index
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2019

Contents:

Prologue
"Tear in pieces the doctors"
"An endless source of innocent delight"
"Ripping open my belly"
"He is as good as the theatre"
"The grass is three feet high in the streets"
"Doctor, I despair"
"There are no informed people here"
"H--k is enough, and even that unnecessary"
"This delicious banquet"
"I long to see Captain Lewis"
"Strange noises, low spirits"
"Such a piece of downright imposture"
"You know, better than any man"
"Instead of creeping along the earth"
"Your fortunate city"
"Expulsion from the Garden of Eden"
"Like a romance"
Epilogue

LCCN:

2018002489

Control Number:

2749735

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