Scientific plate made in 1791 for the book by De la Croix and Clayton, collected in Henry Lee's work. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, also called Borametz and ...
In 1847, a Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis tried to introduce a radical practice at his obstetrical ward in Vienna. He wanted physicians to wash their hands before treating patients. It didn't ...
IN former times it was generally believed that there existed in the East a mysterious “plant-animal,” variously called “the vegetable lamb of Tartary,” “the Scythian lamb,” and “the Barometz,” or ...
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant" (To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton ...
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