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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Galen, Hildegard of Bingen, John Parkinson, Nicholas Culpeper, Lydia Pinkham, Greg Caton, Claire Loewenfeld, Earl Mindell, Samuel Thomson, Sanapia, Katherine Siva Saubel, John Gerard, Subhuti Dharmananda, Michael Tierra, David Winston, Jill Blakeway, Joseph Barsalou, Keewaydinoquay Peschel, Anita Miller Smith, Pedanius Dioscorides, Amanda McQuade Crawford, Thomas Shadrach James, Jeanne Rose, Todd Caldecott, Herbalist, Georg Joseph Kamel, Michael Moore, William LeSassier, Natalia Zemna, Morwyn, Henriette Kress, Kathy Abascal, Ingeborg i Mjarhult, Isaac Swainson, John Milton Scudder, Zhang Zhongjing, John Uri Lloyd, Hilda Leyel, Maud Grieve, Duncan Napier, Susun Weed, Ella Birzneck, Two Moon Meridas, Ellen Evert Hopman, Rosemary Gladstar, Tommie Bass, Robyn Landis, Finley Ellingwood, Eli Jones, James A. Duke, Alma Hogan Snell, Clark Stanley, John Abayomi-Cole, John William Fyfe, Harvey Wickes Felter, Gen MacManiman, Brigitta Lars Anderssons, Pierre Savalle, Jean Ruelle. Excerpt: Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (German: Latin: ) (1098 - 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama. She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations. Hildegard's preaching toursHildegard of Bingen's date of birth is uncertain. It has been concluded that she may have been born in the year 1098. Hildegard was raised in a family of free nobles. She was he...
