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At the Lilly Experimental Farm

  • Circa 1919

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Color printed photographs of fields of medicinal plants with workers and horses present. The medicinal plants are henbane and digitalis. Eli Lilly and Company ran the experimental farm to try to propagate drug plants as potent as those imported from Europe.

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Eli Lilly and Company. “At the Lilly Experimental Farm.” Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1919. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/vm40xs83p.

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