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dramatic and violent political vicissitudes of human nature, becoming part of
modern- day Çukurova in Turkey, but only after armies, of the First Crusade, the
Armenian Kingdom, and many others, left the area in ruins, to be admired by
twenty-first-century tourists. In fact, while a monk sought out a painkiller on remote
Mount Athos, that same year (1934) also saw the doomed consecration of the
Balkan Entente, a Pact that would never prevent subsequent aggression across
Dioscorides’ homeland by the Nazis.
Fig. 61.1 Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in Hermann Adolph Köhler’s Medicinal Plants (Köhler’s
Medizinal-Pflanzen), illustrated by K. Gunther, Walther Otto Müller and C.F. Schmidt; Franz
Eugen Köhler, publisher, 1887. (Public Domain)
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dramatic and violent political vicissitudes of human nature, becoming part of
modern- day Çukurova in Turkey, but only after armies, of the First Crusade, the
Armenian Kingdom, and many others, left the area in ruins, to be admired by
twenty-first-century tourists. In fact, while a monk sought out a painkiller on remote
Mount Athos, that same year (1934) also saw the doomed consecration of the
Balkan Entente, a Pact that would never prevent subsequent aggression across
Dioscorides’ homeland by the Nazis.
Fig. 61.1 Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in Hermann Adolph Köhler’s Medicinal Plants (Köhler’s
Medizinal-Pflanzen), illustrated by K. Gunther, Walther Otto Müller and C.F. Schmidt; Franz
Eugen Köhler, publisher, 1887. (Public Domain)
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