The Badianus Manuscript

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Title
The Badianus Manuscript
Description
The image depicts the Patio of the Convent of Huaxtepec. In this garden, the Aztec physicians had experimented with the plants in order to determine their pharmaceutical value and it was here that Dr. Fransisco Hernandez, the first European physician and botanist studied the plants of the New World.
Contributor
Translated by Emily Walcott Emmart
Creator
Martín de la Cruz
Date
1940
Publisher
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
Source
Special Collections, Mary Counts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University
Subject
Aztec Medicine
Media
Badianus.tif

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