Livingstone
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Title
Livingstone
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Special Collections
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Fine Art
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History
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Centre for Curating the Archive
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Description
A small wooden chip from the same object collection as the medicine chest balanced on top of one of the bottles from the chest.
"The treatment, the Livingstone rouser, was formulated by Dr Livingstone, who, after an attack of malaria in 1853, patented this mixture of quinine and purgatives (calomel, rhubarb and jalop) mixed with opium (Barrett & Giordani 2017: 1655–1666). The chip balanced on its lid is said to be from the almond tree under which he proposed to Mary Moffat in 1844. The juxtaposition of these two objects, one representing the quantifiable and the other the poetic, draws the viewer to consider the conflation of these two realms" (Liebenberg 2021: 273).
"The treatment, the Livingstone rouser, was formulated by Dr Livingstone, who, after an attack of malaria in 1853, patented this mixture of quinine and purgatives (calomel, rhubarb and jalop) mixed with opium (Barrett & Giordani 2017: 1655–1666). The chip balanced on its lid is said to be from the almond tree under which he proposed to Mary Moffat in 1844. The juxtaposition of these two objects, one representing the quantifiable and the other the poetic, draws the viewer to consider the conflation of these two realms" (Liebenberg 2021: 273).
Creator
Nina Liebenberg
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Date Created
2018
Source
Special Collections
Chest: a botanical ecology
Resonances
Joanne Bloch
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David Livingstone
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traveller
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explorer
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missionaries
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colonialism
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post-colonialism
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Mary Moffat
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engagement
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marriage
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R.F. Immelman
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Special Collections
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library
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failure
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proposal
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illness
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disease
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medicine chest
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Kimberley
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cabinet
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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South African Museum
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malaria
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rhubarb
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calomel
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treatment
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Type
Objects
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
