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{"id":9667,"date":"2016-07-13T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:42:37","slug":"a-new-herbal-in-the-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2016\/07\/13\/a-new-herbal-in-the-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Herbal in the Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Margaret Kaiser<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9705\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7158.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9705\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2016\/07\/13\/a-new-herbal-in-the-collection\/_dsc7158\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7158.png?fit=822%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"822,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Titlepage of Benefice Commun\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Titlepage of Benefice commun, with portrait of Leonhart Fuchs, 1556<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7158.png?fit=206%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7158.png?fit=701%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-9705 size-medium\" title=\" Leonhart Fuchs, 1556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7158.png?resize=206%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Under the title of the book a woodcut of a bearded man in a flat hat and furred robes holding a branch.\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Titlepage of Benefice commun, with portrait of Leonhart Fuchs, 1555-56<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Library has recently acquired a rare work on medicinal plants by Leonhart Fuchs: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/permalink\/01NLM_INST\/1o1phhn\/alma9916633313406676\"><em>Le Benefice commun de tout le monde, ou commodit\u00e9 de vie d’un chascun, pour la conservation de sant\u00e9<\/em><\/a> [<em>the common benefit of all, for the preservation of health<\/em>], 1555-56. The book is a very small volume, about 4 inches tall, and is beautifully illustrated with woodcuts which depict the plants from life.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Benefice commun de tout le monde<\/em> is a collection of medical and pharmaceutical texts. It was published in 1555-56 in Rouen in the north of France, one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe.\u00a0As the title suggests, the book is a guide for living a healthy life.\u00a0\u00a0 The first two parts include suggestions for healthy living, general information on plants and food, as well as medical recipes for oils, pills, and other preparations to treat maladies including fever, plague, and wounds.\u00a0 The third part deals with medicinal plants and gives descriptions of plants and their uses in medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Fuchs\u2019 descriptions of the medicinal properties of the plants were based largely on traditional medical texts, especially the writings of Dioscorides and Galen.\u00a0 Fuchs was renowned as a physician and a teacher and is best known as the author of the magnificent herbal <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/permalink\/01NLM_INST\/1o1phhn\/alma992278383406676\"><em>De historia stirpium\u2026 <\/em><\/a>, 1542 and is the third of the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/09\/29\/a-german-botanical-renaissance\/\">German Fathers of Botany<\/a>\u2019, after Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock.\u00a0 Fuchs was born in Bavaria and received his medical degree at the University of Ingolstadt but later moved to T\u00fcbingen to accept a professorship of medicine at the university.\u00a0 He would remain in T\u00fcbingen for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2016\\\/07\\\/13\\\/a-new-herbal-in-the-collection\\\/","likes_blog_id":"52242398"}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 394px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"394\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 278px; height: 394px;\" data-original-width=\"278\" data-original-height=\"394\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2016\/07\/13\/a-new-herbal-in-the-collection\/_dsc7163\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"274\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"390\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9707\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7163.png\" data-orig-size=\"841,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Iris, in Benefice commun, 1555-56\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7163.png?fit=210%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7163.png?fit=718%2C1024&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7163.png?w=274&h=390&ssl=1\" width=\"274\" height=\"390\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"274\" data-original-height=\"390\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Iris, in Benefice commun, 1555-56\" alt=\"Inset in the text, a wood cut of an Iris plant in bloom, with roots exposed.\" style=\"width: 274px; height: 390px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Iris is said to be useful to treat headache, cough, sores, and animal bites. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 280px; height: 394px;\" data-original-width=\"280\" data-original-height=\"394\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2016\/07\/13\/a-new-herbal-in-the-collection\/_dsc7161\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"276\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"390\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9706\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7161.png\" data-orig-size=\"850,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Asparagus, in Benefice commun, 1555-56\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7161.png?fit=213%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7161.png?fit=725%2C1024&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7161.png?w=276&h=390&ssl=1\" width=\"276\" height=\"390\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"276\" data-original-height=\"390\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Asparagus, in Benefice commun, 1555-56\" alt=\"Inset in the text, a wood cut of a feathery plant with asparagus shoots and roots.\" style=\"width: 276px; height: 390px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Asparagus is suggested as a treatment for many ailments including toothache, kidney stones, gout and dysuria. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 282px; height: 394px;\" data-original-width=\"282\" data-original-height=\"394\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2016\/07\/13\/a-new-herbal-in-the-collection\/_dsc7164\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"278\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"390\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"9708\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7164.png\" data-orig-size=\"855,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Plantain, in Benefice commun, 1555-56\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7164.png?fit=214%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7164.png?fit=730%2C1024&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7164.png?w=278&h=390&ssl=1\" width=\"278\" height=\"390\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"278\" data-original-height=\"390\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Plantain, in Benefice commun, 1555-56\" alt=\"Inset in the text, a wood cut of a plantain, a broadleaf plant with fibrous roots and grass-like seedheads.\" style=\"width: 278px; height: 390px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Plantain is recommended for a wide variety of problems including ulcers, fluxes, fistulas, earache, and dog bites. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>The knowledge of plants and their uses as medicine was very important to Fuchs.\u00a0 He tended the herb garden at T\u00fcbingen and as a teacher, he encouraged his students to study plants and would lead field trips to observe plants and their characteristics as they grew.\u00a0 Many of the plants described were, and still are, easily found in gardens or in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><em>For questions about these titles, including how to consult them, please contact the History of Medicine Division Reference staff at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.nlm.nih.gov\/ics\/support\/KBList.asp?folderID=150&from=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NLM Customer Support<\/a> or (301) 402-8878.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Margaret Kaiser is<\/em> <em>Acquisitions Librarian for the Rare Books and Early Manuscripts Section in the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Margaret Kaiser The Library has recently acquired a rare work on medicinal plants by Leonhart Fuchs: Le Benefice commun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19605840,"featured_media":9709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A New Herbal in the Collection - NLM has acquired a 16th century herbal and guide for living a healthy life by Leonhart Fuchs","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12763,103,347145303],"tags":[903712,1480675,626134,15734,2971278],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections","category-news","category-rare-books-journals","tag-1500s","tag-book-illustration","tag-herbals","tag-plants","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dsc7163_feature.png?fit=932%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xcDk-2vV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19605840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21834,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions\/21834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |