FROM PLANTS TO MEDICINES
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Narrado por Jorge Obregón
Narrado por Jorge Obregón
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the observation of plants and the rise of experimental medical research transformed botanical imagery into a tool for the production of national medicines.
This endeavor was advanced on a larger scale at the National Medical Institute, founded in 1888, where physicians and artists associated with Velasco—among them Fernando Altamirano and Adolfo Tenorio—participated in the initiative to illustrate Mexico’s flora with the ambition of developing a national therapeutic science.
Collaborations such as those Velasco maintained with Rafael Montes de Oca in various publications demonstrate how visual knowledge of plant species was a vital means of extracting resources from the living world.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the observation of plants and the rise of experimental medical research transformed botanical imagery into a tool for the production of national medicines.
This endeavor was advanced on a larger scale at the National Medical Institute, founded in 1888, where physicians and artists associated with Velasco—among them Fernando Altamirano and Adolfo Tenorio—participated in the initiative to illustrate Mexico’s flora with the ambition of developing a national therapeutic science.
Collaborations such as those Velasco maintained with Rafael Montes de Oca in various publications demonstrate how visual knowledge of plant species was a vital means of extracting resources from the living world.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the observation of plants and the rise of experimental medical research transformed botanical imagery into a tool for the production of national medicines.
This endeavor was advanced on a larger scale at the National Medical Institute, founded in 1888, where physicians and artists associated with Velasco—among them Fernando Altamirano and Adolfo Tenorio—participated in the initiative to illustrate Mexico’s flora with the ambition of developing a national therapeutic science.
Collaborations such as those Velasco maintained with Rafael Montes de Oca in various publications demonstrate how visual knowledge of plant species was a vital means of extracting resources from the living world.