Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze, History and description of the Royal Museum of natural history… (1823)
“ The four first contain medicinal plants for the poor, arranged in beds properly labelled for the convenience of herbarists and students in pharmacy and medicine. Two of these squares are assigned to indigenous plants, and two to exotics. Among the latter are several species of rhubarb, rheum, and some vegetables lately introduced, to which great virtues are ascribed in their native countries, and of which our physicians are thus enabled to make trial. ”
