Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants

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Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants Authors: , Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Brill
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Pages: 334 Language: English ISBN: 9789004423534 Categories: , , , , ,

In Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants, Sally Francis and Maria Teresa Ramandi present the first translation into English of Johann Ferdinand Hertodt’s seminal 1671 work Crocologia, a book uniquely devoted to the medical uses of saffron. Hertodt discusses saffron’s origin, related species, cultivation, selection, properties and lists all its pharmaceutical preparations. Hertodt then journeys through diseases of the human body, presenting saffron-containing formulae for their treatment. The two authors complement the translation with a biography of Hertodt, and detail saffron’s botany, current production, uses, its changing reputation as a drug, and review findings from new medical research. There is a full Glossary, and translation of a contemporary animadversion of Crocologia by Hertodt’s rival, Wenzel Maximilian Ardensbach.

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"This scholarly edition is likely to interest botanists, pharmacologists, and historians of natural history, medicine and pharmacognosy." E. Charles Nelson, Society for the History of Natural History, in Archives of Natural History 2021. (https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2021.0703)

Author Biography

Sally Francis, M.A. (Oxon.), D. Phil. (Oxon., 1996) is a botanist, specialising in niche crops. For the last decade she has concentrated on saffron, extensively researching the plant and becoming the UK’s leading commercial grower of the spice. Maria Teresa Ramandi, Ph.D. (Cantab., 2016) is a Latinist with an interest in the History of Medicine. Her research has focused on the circulation of Latin texts in Northern Europe and their translation into vernacular languages.