although the precise cultural reasons underlying such differentiation often escape us due to the absence of archaeological context

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Six of Rubens’s designs for the tapestries

chief conservator at the Museum of Modern Art

Herbs and Medicinal Plants Knowledge Cards 3-D although the precise cultural reasonsBefore the science of pharmacology was confined to the laboratory, all medicines were remedies made from plant materials. Healersfrom the Neolithic shamans to the eminent physicians of the Enlightenmentmade their own poultices, tinctures, and salves from plants that grew in their gardens or in the wild. Few abilities were more important to a doctor than a precise identification of the correct flora. The 48 beautiful nineteenth century botanical