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8044X ISBN: 978-1-4200-8044-5 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487 90000 711 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 an informa business 2 Park Square, Milton Park www.crcpress.com Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK 9 781420 080445 CRC World Dictionary of MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology Umberto Quattrocchi, F.L.S. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2012 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Version Date: 20140206 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-4822-5064-0 (eBook - PDF) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. 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Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com Dedicated to Raffaella, Daria, and Salvatore “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” The Old Man and the Sea “As soon as I got to Borstal they made me a long-distance cross-country runner.” The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner “This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairy old white men on a planet which was dying fast.” Breakfast of Champions Foreword Following on the successes of two previous diction- of plant properties from the literature and offers the appro- ary projects, the CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names priate caveats about medical uses. His linguistic skills are and the CRC World Dictionary of the Grasses, Umberto evident in his handling of the literature and in the multilin- Quattrocchi has undertaken this dictionary of economi- gual listings of common names. The derivation of generic cally important plants. Quattrocchi has again shown a broad names from the standard Greek and Latin are provided, but grasp of the literature, of botanical nomenclature and of so, too, are those from many other languages. many languages to produce this guide to plants that are used Having seen the author at work gives me a certain per- by people around the world in medicine, food, and cultural spective on how this massive compilation could come about. practices. Gathered from many sources we have here a guide During his several extended visits to the Harvard University to plants that will bring us the pleasure of quickly finding Botany Libraries for work on this and his previous projects, I an answer with well-documented sources. Because use in observed the intensity with which he worked. For months at a medicine is one of several ways in which this book can time he could be found in the reading room among books and inform the reader, Quattrocchi is clear that this work is not journals of many ilk. Despite the focus on this work, he had to be done on the authority of these listings alone. Sources time for discussion with those who passed through and those in some entries are contradictory or missing. In this, one who might have a quick question on the state of the world — is reminded in the words of Samuel Johnson: “Dictionaries he is as well a professor of political science. His diligence in are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best compiling his dictionaries is matched by his enthusiasm for cannot be expected to go quite true.” He has done for these the plants themselves, for the authors of the important and plants what was so admirably done in his other works — sometimes trivial items that he examined, and for the chal- brought the vast and scattered literature on plant names, and lenge of ferreting out some of the improbable information he in this case their uses, too, into coherent order so that the presents in these volumes. inquisitive scholar can get a foothold. Who better to undertake this particular challenge? A phy- Donald H. Pfister sician by training Quattrocchi provides concise summaries Cambridge, Massachusetts vii
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