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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.<br>
Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife Service-International
Affairs<br>
Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance<br>
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110<br>
Arlington, VA  22203<br>
703-358-1708 x1753<br>
FAX: 703-358-2276<br>
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</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Promoting sustainable use and conservation
of our native medicinal plants. <br>
<www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal><br>
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<br><font size=1 color=#800080 face="sans-serif">----- Forwarded by Patricia
De Angelis/ARL/R9/FWS/DOI on 07/18/2012 09:51 AM -----</font>
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<td colspan=2 bgcolor=white><img src=cid:_2_0BD774C40BD7729C004C4B9485257A3F alt="Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions | Inspiring Innovation from Tradition">
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<td bgcolor=#cac0b6><font size=3 color=#9f000f>Summer 2012</font>
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<td><font size=4 color=#9f000f><b>The Institute</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>CONNECTIONS</b></font>
<br><img src=cid:_2_0BD7C0B40BD7BE60004C4B9485257A3F alt="The Institute">
<p><font size=3>In its constant and fast growth, the <i>Institute</i> is
making connections to engage more decisively into its educational activity
and to pass the torch to the next generation of scholars and scientists.
A group of students is already in residence during the summer. ...</font>
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<p><font size=3 color=white>Monetary donations to the Institute are gratefully
accepted as they help to sustain all of its activities and to enhance its
collections. Donations of services and equipment are also welcome.</font>
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and a receipt for tax purposes, as the Institute is recognized by the Internal
Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.</font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f><b>Institute for the Preservation of Medical
Traditions</b></font>
<p><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f><b>Address:</b></font>
<br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f>PO Box 7606<br>
Washington, DC 20044-7606<br>
United States</font>
<p><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f><b>Telephone:</b><br>
(202) 633-0967</font>
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(202) 786-2563</font>
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<br><font size=3><b>NEW INVESTIGATIONS</b></font>
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<p><font size=3>With youthful energy, the <i>Institute</i> is expanding
the horizon of its research, thanks to students in residence during the
summer or through programs initialized from inside the <i>Institute</i>.
Mediterranean archaeobotany, Roman gardens, Ayurvedic medicine, and present-day
traditional knowledge in Ethiopia are among the new investigations. ...</font>
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<td><font size=4 color=#9f000f><b>worldwide</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>AN AUCTION, CONFERENCES, AND MORE</b></font>
<br><img src=cid:_2_08B7570C08B754B8004C4B9485257A3F alt=Worldwide><font size=3>Exhibitions,
conferences, and other events in the history of medicine, medicinal plants,
and therapeutic uses of plants are on the rise. The <i>Institute</i> participates
in several of them. Here is a selection ... </font>
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<td><font size=4 color=#9f000f><b>Collections</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>REORDERING</b></font>
<br><img src=cid:_2_08B7708C08B76E38004C4B9485257A3F alt="In the Literature"><font size=3>Just
like the <i>Institute</i>, the <i>Historia Plantarum</i> library and documentary
collection of the <i>Institute's</i> founders has dramatically grown in
recent years. A reordering was necessary, all the more because the <i>Institute</i>
is moving toward a new phase in its activity and opening more widely the
doors of the collection to a teaching institution ... </font>
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<td><font size=4 color=#9f000f><b>in the literature</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>THE SALERNITAN SCHOOL</b></font>
<br><img src=cid:_2_08B78BE408B78990004C4B9485257A3F alt=Collections><font size=3>Salerno
in southern Italy is supposed to have hosted during the Middle Ages a medical
school credited with an importance equal to that of the school of Alexandria.
As the story goes, it was founded by a Greek, a Jewish and an Arabic physician
whose different origins reflect the multiculturality of the school. New
research is delving into the history of the school ... </font>
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<p><font size=3 color=#d0b1a1><i>Archaia/Nea</i> means <i>"Ancient/New"</i>
in Classical Greek. This is the Newsletter of the Institute for the Preservation
of Medical Traditions. </font><a href="http://medicaltraditions.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=165&qid=16425"><font size=3 color=#9f000f><u>Learn
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