Grew, Nehemiah

Grew, Nehemiah, Tractatus de Salis Cathartici Amari in Aquis Ebesha-... 

Grew, Nehemiah, A Treatise of the Nature and Use of the Bitter Purging... 

Grew, Nehemiah. 1965. The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures Read before the Royal Society. New York and London Johnson Reprint Corporation. Reprint of the edition London Rawlins, 1682. 

In 1665, Robert Hooke examined thin slices of cork under his very simple microscope and discovered small, box-like spaces which he named cells. A few years later the Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi described similar structures in animal tissues, which he called vesicles or utricles and, in 1672, the English botanist Nehemiah Grew published two extensively illustrated volumes greatly extending Hooke s findings. The concept of the cell as a unit of structure in the plant and animal kingdoms was launched, but it was two centuries later before scientists... 

In 1695 Dr. Nehemiah Grew published a dissertation on the medicinal value of salt from these wells (41). Dr. Grew prepared solid Epsom salt from this well water and recognized it as a unique substance The Purging bitter Salt. . . does differ in its Nature and Species from all other Salts (62, 69). Nehemiah Grew in England and Marcello Malpighi in Italy laid the foundations for the science of plant anatomy (70). 

Arber, Agnes, Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) and Marcello Malpighi (1628-... 

Nehemiah Grew publishes a dissertation on Epsom salt. 

Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate has been known and used since the late seventeenth century. The term AaltA was introduced in 1695 by the English naturalist Nehemiah Grew (1628-1711), who named the compound after... 

The term AaltA is introduced by British naturalist Nehemiah Grew, who names the compound after the spring waters near Epsom, England, from which it was often extracted. 

English botanist Nehemiah Grew isolates Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) from spring water. 

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