Homage to Rhubarb
David Allen, 8 October 1992
Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug
by Clifford Foust.
Princeton, 317 pp., £27.50, April 1992,0 691 08747 4 Show More
by Clifford Foust.
Princeton, 317 pp., £27.50, April 1992,
“... only vegetatively and so totally dependent on human beings for their spread. Professor Foust is a worthy successor to these men. A specialist in the out-of-the-way topic of 18th-century Russo-Chinese trade, he became intrigued by the salient part played in this by rhubarb. The trail took him deep into unfamiliar botanical and medical ... ”
