Urbanibalism

The city devouring itself

Posts tagged:   ‘Pharmacy’


A Garden Apart

Jun 19, 2010

The relations between Utrecht and medicinal horticulture runs deep. The city's interest in medical plants reached its apogee in the 1630s. A specialized medical garden, the Hortus Medicus, was established to further cultivate plants and concoct herbal medicines as cures or tinctures to stave off the plague.