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Botany and Medicine
In both theoretical and practical medicine, the
study of plants played a significant role in the
early modern period. As branches of medical
knowledge, herbs, plants, and vegetal bodies
were the subject of (1) the fabrication of therapeutics,
called simples; (2) the discipline of signatures,
the knowledge of the hidden key
connecting bodies; and (3) the physiological
study of living functions, such as growth, nutrition,
and generation. Drawing on ancient
scholarly tradition, the work of early modern physicians,
chymists, women, and natural philosophers
reveals the medical importance of botany,
which slowly attained an autonomous status in the
seventeenth century
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