20-10-2019, 11:41 PM
I looked through Touwaide's credentials and academic history.
I had assumed he had a background in historical botany, so I couldn't understand why he described plant structures in such an unorthodox and unbotanical (and somewhat misleading) way. It turns out he has an interest in historical pharmacy but his early academic work was mainly in classics, oriental history and philology. From what I can tell, it is mostly in a professional capacity that he has became involved with plants (you can't study ancient medicine without including plants).
I had assumed he had a background in historical botany, so I couldn't understand why he described plant structures in such an unorthodox and unbotanical (and somewhat misleading) way. It turns out he has an interest in historical pharmacy but his early academic work was mainly in classics, oriental history and philology. From what I can tell, it is mostly in a professional capacity that he has became involved with plants (you can't study ancient medicine without including plants).