A diversion from the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine

Materia Mania

or,

The Medicines, and the People who wrote them down.

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A Popularity Free-for-all

Click anyone for their story.
Hearts keep them in the garden. Every night the three least-loved leave.
More hearts break the seals on more of their story.
Drag anyone and throw them at someone else. Some of them have history.

Leiden · in the Physick Garden · MDCX

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Facts come from Thomas Easley's materia medica, the Historical Materia Medica database, and the books cited on each card.

Garden Leiden Hortus Botanicus, engraved 1610 (Rijksmuseum)

Plants Köhler (1887), Thomé (1885), Wikimedia Commons

People Public-domain portraits, Wikimedia Commons