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Trees that heal (and don't). (an apothecary of real and imagined arboreal cures)(Forest Folklore)
American Forests
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January 1, 1991|
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Of the 750 native and naturalized species cataloged in the Check List of United States Trees (1979), only a relative handful truly possess medicinal powers. But a longtime interest in the subject convinces me that at least 300 species have been credited with having therapeutic properties.
The ills of humans have long responded to treatment by poultices, physics, ointments, pain killers, and other remedies concocted from leaves, twigs, bark, fruit, and roots. But so-called kitchen or folk medicine is gradually disappearing into history. This is a pity, ...
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The state of Schleiermacher scholarship today; selected essays.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 0773457429 The state of Schleiermacher scholarship today; selected essays. Ed...essays on German philosopher and theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834). Their topics include interpreting...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Births: Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), philosopher and writer, 1694; Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher, theologian, 1768; Cornelius Varley, painter, 1781; Bryan Waller Procter ("Barry Cornwell"), poet, 1787; Edmund...
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Conference to Examine the Educational Traditions of Moravians.
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Defining postliberalism.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...in light of James Gustafson's affirmation that Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ernst Troeltsch's modern world "is still with us...witnessing modernity's "silly season" of credulity? Daniel Griggs First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ...
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