Dear Colleagues: I have come across the case of Hoghelande (1546/58-1614), an early botanist who is alleged to have taken a “crucial part in the establishment–more particularly the institutionalization–of botany as a respectable field of study within the medical faculty of Leiden.” Is this timing approximately coincidental with the decline of herbals as a source of reliable information re. medicinal botany? If true, does anyone know exact what Hoghelande did to deserve such credit?
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