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4 juillet 2018
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Clare Griffin, « 8. Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.txyhmd
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In 1628, physicians in the Russian palace’s medical department were presented with a root, and ordered to give their opinion on it. The root in question had been taken as evidence in a witchcraft case, as possession of herbs and roots was commonly seen as evidence of malefic magic in seventeenth-century Russia. So the medical experts—foreigners, and graduates of prestigious Western European universities—spoke in Latin on the medical and magical properties of this root, a response that was tra...