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Publication Date: 2000
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Az-Tech Medicine.
Nicholson, Rob
Natural History, v108 n10 p54-59 Dec-Jan 1999-2000
Created in 1552 as a gift for Spain's king, the Badianus Manuscript is a repository of Aztec traditional medicinal knowledge and contains the earliest surviving illustrations of New World plants. At the College of Santa Cruz (Mexico City) for Aztec nobility, an Aztec healer who became the college physician compiled plant descriptions and medicinal uses, later translated into Latin. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, Cultural Exchange, Foreign Countries, Illustrations, Indigenous Knowledge, Medicine, Plants (Botany), Secondary Education
American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024; Tel: 800-234-5252; e-mail: nhmag@amnh.org (1-year subscription: $30.00 U.S., $40.00 foreign).
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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