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A Medicinal Aloe growing under glass in the Chelsea Physic Garden.
[This photograph was published in "London Botanic Gardens" by P. E. F. Perrédès,
B.Sc., F.L.S., published by the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, and is kindly lent
for this book by the Director of those Laboratories, Dr. Frederick B. Power
.
]
In 1622 Mindererus published a treatise on a special compound of aloes which he had devised. Raymond Minderer was the most famous physician of his time. He lived at Augsburg, and was the appointed medical adviser to the Duke of Bavaria and the great house of the Fuggers, the Rothschilds of the period. Minderer's