Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Quick Guide to the Key Medical Practitioners and Their Gardens
INTRODUCTION Illuminating the Doctor's Garden
ONE Educating the Senses: The Botanic Garden as a Teaching and Research Center
TWO Creating a Perpetual Spring: Tracing Private Botanic Collectors and Their Networks
THREE For "Curiosity and Instruction": Visiting the Botanic Garden
FOUR "Hints or Directions": Reading the Doctor's Garden
FIVE For Dulce and Utile: The Garden as Both Ornament and Farm

SIX This "Terrestrial Elysium": Sociability and the Garden
EPILOGUE The Stories We Tell: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index.