{"id":3858,"date":"2015-04-03T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2015-04-03T22:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:07:56","slug":"medicinal-plants-of-the-mediterranean-history-of-medicine-society-r-palmer-howard-dinner-april-24-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2015\/04\/03\/medicinal-plants-of-the-mediterranean-history-of-medicine-society-r-palmer-howard-dinner-april-24-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicinal Plants of the Mediterranean \u2013 History of Medicine Society, R. Palmer Howard Dinner \u2013 April 24, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5718\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/04\/hom2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5718\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/04\/hom2015-300x259.png\" alt=\"picture of Alain Touwaide\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alain Touwaide<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to attend the R. Palmer Howard reception, dinner, \u00a0and presentation on Friday, April 24, 2015.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/botany.si.edu\/staff\/staffPage.cfm?ThisName=71\" >Alain Touwaide<\/a>\u00a0of the Smithsonian Institution will speak on <em>Medicinal Plants of the Mediterranean : A Unique Tradition<\/em>.\u00a0 The\u00a0event will be held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheratoniowacity.com\/\" >Sheraton Hotel<\/a>\u00a0in Downtown Iowa City, beginning at 6pm.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/02\/HOMSBanquetForm.pdf\" >Reservations and payment<\/a> are due by April 17.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/02\/HOMSBanquetForm.pdf\" > printable registration form, including menu<\/a>) Physicians of Antiquity collected\u00a0 information about the therapeutic uses of natural resources, particularly plants. This knowledge, best illustrated by Hippocrates, Dioscorides and Galen, was handed down through centuries from one generation and one culture to another in an uninterrupted chain. Touwaide will illustrate this unique phenomenon by following the legacy of Antiquity in its odyssey around the Mediterranean until the dawn of Modern Science, focusing on\u00a0exceptional and ordinary books that transmitted this legacy. \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5722\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/04\/Picture4.png\" alt=\"Picture4\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 29px\" width=\"823\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to attend the R. Palmer Howard reception, dinner, &nbsp;and presentation on Friday, April 24, 2015.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alain Touwaide&nbsp;of the Smithsonian Institution will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}