Az-Tech Medicine
Natural History, Dec, 1999 by Rob Nicholson
Rob Nicholson ("Az-Tech Medicine") first learned of the 1552 Badianus Manuscript and its colorful illustrations while taking a course with renowned Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Schultes. Currently interim administrative director of the Botanic Garden of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, Nicholson has been part of a team studying photoecdysones in primitive gymnosperms (these compounds help deter insects from feeding on the plants).
In addition, he is writing on botanical aspects of the paintings of Frederic Church, a member of the nineteenth-century Hudson River school, who also spent time in Colombia and Ecuador. Nicholson's plant-collecting expeditions have taken him around the world in search of specimens for use in medical research, conservation biology, and ornamental horticulture. He has traveled to Mexico, Canada, Chile, Vietnam, Colombia, Ecuador, Morocco, Algeria, the Philippines, and South Korea, as well as around the United States. Not a bad life, says he.
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