Ele Willoughby, PhD<p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/ArtAdventCalendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtAdventCalendar</span></a> day 23: my weeping willow and salicylate cyanotype! </p><p>Willow has been used used for medicinal purposes for 1000s of years; cures using willow appear in the writings of various ancient Greek scholars & infusions of willow bark were used traditionally by Cherokee & other Indigenous peoples of NA for fever & other medicinal purposes.<br />🧵1/</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/salix" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>salix</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/weepingWillow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>weepingWillow</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/willow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>willow</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SciArtSeptember2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciArtSeptember2024</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>