A Lecture, Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia
A Lecture, Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia

Author: Thomas Sewall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781390984835

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Excerpt from A Lecture, Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia: March 30, 1825 Alexander garden, M D. A scientific physician of South Carolina. In 1764, he published an account of the medicinal virtues of the pinkroot, and gave a botanical description of the plant. He devoted much time to the study of natural history, and particularly to botany, and made various communications on these subjects to his friends in Europe. In compliment to him, the greatest botanist of the age gave the name of Gardenia to one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs in the world. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Upsal. É-ramay's Review of Med. 42. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Tomato in America
The Tomato in America

Author: Andrew F. Smith

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780252070099

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From the Americas to Australasia, from northern Europe to southern Africa, the tomato tickles the world's taste buds. Americans along devour more than twelve million tons annually of this peculiar fruit, variously considered poisonous, curative, and aphrodisiacal. In this first concerted study of the tomato in America, Andrew F. Smith separates myth from historical fact, beginning with the Salem, New Jersey, man who, in 1820, allegedly attracted spectators from hundreds of miles to watch him eat a tomato on the courthouse steps (the legend says they expected to see him die a painful death). Later, hucksters such as Dr. John Cook Bennett and the Amazing Archibald Miles peddled the tomato's purported medicinal benefits. The competition was so fierce that the Tomato Pill War broke out in 1838. The Tomato in America traces the early cultivation of the tomato, its infiltration of American cooking practices, the early manufacture of preserved tomatoes and ketchup (soon hailed as "the national condiment of the United States"), and the "great tomato mania" of the 1820s and 1830s. The book also includes tomato recipes from the pre-Civil War period, covering everything from sauces, soups, and main dishes to desserts and sweets. Now available for the first time in paperback, The Tomato in America provides a piquant and entertaining look at a versatile and storied figure in culinary history.