Excerpt from Curiosities of Medical Experience, Vol. 2 of 2
Self-styled wandering Turks and Armenians are frequently met with in crowded cities vending rhubarb, tooth-powder, and various drugs and nostrums, exciting the curiosity of the idlers that group around them by exhibiting a root bearing a strong resemblance to the human form. This is the far-famed mandragore, of which such wonderful accounts have been related by both ancients and moderns.
This plant is the Atropa Mandragora of Linn?us, and grows wild in the mountainous and shaded parts of Italy, Spain, and the Levant, where it is also cultivated in gardens. The root bears such a likeness, at least in fancy's eyes, to our species, that it was called Semi-homo. Hence says Columella,
Quamvis semihominis vesano gramine f?ta
Mandragora pariat flores m?stamque cicutam.
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