(Original post here: kalebeul)
With chunks of Dioscorides and Andrés Laguna, including the wonderful story of what happened when an impotent bridegroom and a constipated friar involuntarily swapped medicines.
Tags: Acute diseases, Aleppo pine, Antwerp, Barcelona, catalonia, Dioscorides, dog, Empire, Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen philosophers, Les bourgeois, pine tree, Pinus halepensis, Remedies and medicines, Spain, translation, Trees, Worms
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