American Eden David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
"One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic's first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland by 1810. "Where others saw real estate and power, Hos...
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- "Tear in pieces the doctors"
- "An endless source of innocent delight"
- "Ripping open my belly"
- "He is as good as the theatre"
- "The grass is three feet high in the streets"
- "Doctor, I despair"
- "There are no informed people here"
- "H--k is enough, and even that unnecessary"
- "This delicious banquet"
- "I long to see Captain Lewis"
- "Strange noises, low spirits"
- "Such a piece of downright imposture"
- "You know, better than any man"
- "Instead of creeping along the earth"
- "Your fortunate city"
- "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden"
- "Like a romance"
- Epilogue.
