The Badianus Manuscript
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Title
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The Badianus Manuscript
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Description
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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.
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Contributor
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Translated by Emily Walcott Emmart
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Creator
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Martín de la Cruz
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Date
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1940
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Publisher
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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
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Source
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Special Collections, Mary Counts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University
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Subject
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Aztec Medicine