Collections
Archives At-Risk
Scientific documentation from Greek manuscripts to historical libraries and present-day scholars and scientists’ archives, for example, may become at risk at some point in time. The recent history of the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute is an example ...
Read more: Archives At-RiskFrom Books to Plants
Collections are the essence of the Institute, the core of its activity, and the substance of its research programs. Over the past years, the founders of the Institute have substantially increased the Historia Plantarum library.
Read more: From Books to PlantsRare Greek Medical Texts and Some Other Books
Filling the lacunas of a collection is not an easy job. Through purchases, exchanges, and donations, the Institute has been recently able to expand the Historia Plantarum collection with some rare pieces of scholarship.
Read more: Rare Greek Medical Texts and Some Other BooksLiving Plants
The Institute is devoted to the study of the ancient record of therapeutic practice, particularly the use of plants. Pursuing its innovative strategy of investigation, it does not limit its activity to searching the books that transmitted this ancient knowledge to present day, digitizing these precious and unique remains of the past, and deciphering, computerizing and analyzing their information, but it also includes collecting the plants that made the substance of ancient remedies.
Read more: Living PlantsWho preserved knowledge?
It is often assumed that knowledge on medicinal plants was preserved by women more than by men. How about a confrontation between history and current practice?
Read more: Who preserved knowledge?
