{"id":1503,"date":"2024-06-05T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:59:40","slug":"would-zola-have-been-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/would-zola-have-been-interested\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Zola have been Interested?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As reported recently in Nature and other sources, Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan (Pongo\u00a0abelii) is\u00a0the first wild animal to be documented using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.<br>But, <strong>according to Nature<\/strong>,  Adrienne Mayor wasn\u2019t surprised to hear the news. \u201cAs a historian of ancient science who investigates what Greeks and Romans knew about plants and animals, I was reminded of similar cases reported by Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Aelian and other naturalists from antiquity,\u201d\u00a0she writes. It even has a name: zoopharmacognosy \u2014 \u2018animal medicine knowledge\u2019. A favourite: according to Pliny,\u00a0deer ate wild artichokes as an antidote for toxic plants. \u00a0(the leaves relieve nausea and stomach cramps and protect the liver).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported recently in Nature and other sources, Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan (Pongo\u00a0abelii) is\u00a0the first wild animal to be documented using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.But, according to Nature, Adrienne Mayor wasn\u2019t surprised to hear the news. \u201cAs a historian of ancient science who investigates what Greeks and Romans knew about plants and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/would-zola-have-been-interested\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would Zola have been Interested?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","entry"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilezolasocietylondon.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}