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<h1><a href="/exhibition/sciencemagicmedicine/index.html">Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter’s World : Herbology"</a></h1>
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<h3><em>Destillierbuch der rechten Kunst, von Kreutern, Wurtzeln, Blumen, Samen...</em>, (Art of distillation of herbs, flowers, grains), Hieronymus Brunschwig, 1552</h3>
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<p style="margin-left: 35px;"><strong><em>I have noticed a relationship between science and natural philosophy…those writings interest me the most which deal with minerals, plants, and animals.</em></strong>
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<br>Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner, 1551<br /></p>
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<p>Because plants and their uses are important to wizards, all students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are required to take Herbology.</p>
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<p>Harry Potter learns how to grow mandrakes, real plants studied by historical botanists. Although this isn’t his favorite subject, the young wizard soon comes to appreciate Herbology. Harry discovers that mandrake is the key ingredient of a potion that will cure his injured classmates.</p>
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<p>Harry is reminded of the value of studying plants when he finds a way to breathe underwater during the Triwizard Tournament. A classmate teaches Harry about gillyweed, a fictitious plant that, when ingested, gives its user fins and gills.</p>
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<ul class="slides nojs"><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12389-lg.jpg" alt="Title page of a book with printed and handwritten text next to an illustration."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12389-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB12396-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset hasjs" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Historically, scholars believed that studying plants could provide clues as to how nature works. German publisher Jakob Meydenbach compiled earlier writings in this encyclopedia of plant knowledge.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12396-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration from page of nine men gathered in a garden observing plants."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12396-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3>Botany discussion from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</h3><p>Historically, scholars believed that studying plants could provide clues as to how nature works. German publisher Jakob Meydenbach compiled earlier writings in this encyclopedia of plant knowledge.</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0025-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and illustrations of plants."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0025-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=826" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>In 1491, publisher Jacob Meydenback compiled earlier writings into the <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em>. This single volume catalogued hundreds of plant species and their uses, including those of the poisonous mandrake.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12397-lg.jpg" alt="Page view with a long haired woman with leaves and bulbs coming out of her head."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12397-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0024-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset hasjs" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=826" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>Female mandrake root from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach. 1491</strong>
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</h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Historical botanists and physicians recognized the mandrake’s medicinal value and sometimes used small doses of the plant as an anesthetic. Some believed that mandrake roots resembled human figures and possessed magical powers, including a fatal scream fictionalized in <em>Harry Potter</em>.</p>
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</div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0024-lg.jpg" alt="A long haired woman with leaves and bulbs coming out of her head."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0024-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li></ul></div><div><h3>Female mandrake root from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</h3><p>Historical botanists and physicians recognized the mandrake’s medicinal value and sometimes used small doses of the plant as an anesthetic. Some believed that mandrake roots resembled human figures and possessed magical powers, including a fatal scream fictionalized in <em>Harry Potter</em>.</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12390-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and illustrations of plants."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12390-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=834 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Destillierbuch der rechten Kunst, von Kreutern, Wurtzeln, Blumen, Samen…</em>, (Art of distillation of herbs, flowers, grains), Hieronymus Brunschwig, 1552</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>While the fictional gillyweed will not be found in the pages of <em>Destillierbuch der rechten Kunst</em>, this book catalogues pages of helpful information on plants and their useful properties. </p></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12387-lg.jpg" alt="Open book showing printed text and illustrations of plants and distillation equipment."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12387-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=850 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Kreutterbüch von allem Erdtgewächs</em> (Herbal of all plants of the earth), Eucharius Rösslin, 1533</strong></h3></div><div class="alttext"></div></li>
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<ul class="slides hasjs"><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12389-lg.jpg" alt="Title page of a book with printed and handwritten text next to an illustration."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB12396-lg.jpg" alt="Illustration from page of nine men gathered in a garden observing plants."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12389-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB12396-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Historically, scholars believed that studying plants could provide clues as to how nature works. German publisher Jakob Meydenbach compiled earlier writings in this encyclopedia of plant knowledge.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Botany discussion from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</h3><p>Historically, scholars believed that studying plants could provide clues as to how nature works. German publisher Jakob Meydenbach compiled earlier writings in this encyclopedia of plant knowledge.</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB0025-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and illustrations of plants."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB0025-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=826" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>In 1491, publisher Jacob Meydenback compiled earlier writings into the <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em>. This single volume catalogued hundreds of plant species and their uses, including those of the poisonous mandrake.</p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12397-lg.jpg" alt="Page view with a long haired woman with leaves and bulbs coming out of her head."><div class="alt"><img src="img/OB0024-lg.jpg" alt="A long haired woman with leaves and bulbs coming out of her head."></div><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12397-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="img/OB0024-lg.jpg" class="enlarge-inset" data-text="View Inset">Enlarge Inset</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=826" target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong>Female mandrake root from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach. 1491</strong>
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</h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>Historical botanists and physicians recognized the mandrake’s medicinal value and sometimes used small doses of the plant as an anesthetic. Some believed that mandrake roots resembled human figures and possessed magical powers, including a fatal scream fictionalized in <em>Harry Potter</em>.</p>
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</div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"><h3>Female mandrake root from <em>Hortus Sanitatis</em> (Garden of Health), published by Jakob Meydenbach, 1491</h3><p>Historical botanists and physicians recognized the mandrake’s medicinal value and sometimes used small doses of the plant as an anesthetic. Some believed that mandrake roots resembled human figures and possessed magical powers, including a fatal scream fictionalized in <em>Harry Potter</em>.</p></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12390-lg.jpg" alt="Pages of a book with text and illustrations of plants."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12390-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=834 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Destillierbuch der rechten Kunst, von Kreutern, Wurtzeln, Blumen, Samen…</em>, (Art of distillation of herbs, flowers, grains), Hieronymus Brunschwig, 1552</strong></h3><p>Courtesy National Library of Medicine</p><p>While the fictional gillyweed will not be found in the pages of <em>Destillierbuch der rechten Kunst</em>, this book catalogues pages of helpful information on plants and their useful properties. </p></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"></div></li><li><div class="photo"><img src="img/OB12387-lg.jpg" alt="Open book showing printed text and illustrations of plants and distillation equipment."><ul class="controls hasjs"><li><a href="img/OB12387-lg.jpg" class="enlarge" data-text="Enlarge Image">Enlarge Image</a></li><li><a href="https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/digitalgallery/index.cfm?gallery=5&action=browse&view=detail&asset=850 " target="_blank" class="digitalgallery" data-text="View in Digital Gallery">View in Digital Gallery</a></li></ul></div><div><h3><strong><em>Kreutterbüch von allem Erdtgewächs</em> (Herbal of all plants of the earth), Eucharius Rösslin, 1533</strong></h3></div><div class="alttext"></div><div class="alttext"></div></li>
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<p style="margin-left: 35px;"><strong><em>I have noticed a relationship between science and natural philosophy…those writings interest me the most which deal with minerals, plants, and animals.</em></strong>
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<br>Swiss naturalist and physician Konrad Gesner, 1551<br /></p>
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<p>Because plants and their uses are important to wizards, all students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are required to take Herbology.</p>
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<p>Harry Potter learns how to grow mandrakes, real plants studied by historical botanists. Although this isn’t his favorite subject, the young wizard soon comes to appreciate Herbology. Harry discovers that mandrake is the key ingredient of a potion that will cure his injured classmates.</p>
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<p>Harry is reminded of the value of studying plants when he finds a way to breathe underwater during the Triwizard Tournament. A classmate teaches Harry about gillyweed, a fictitious plant that, when ingested, gives its user fins and gills.</p>
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