IMAGE 24: Making sassafras visible. ‘The Sassafras’, in Nicolás Monardes, Ioyful nevves ovt of the newe founde worlde, wherein is declared the rare and singuler vertues of diuerse and sundrie Hearbes, Trees, Oyles, Plantes, and Stones (London: Poules Churche-yearde, by Willyam Norton, 1577), translated by Jhon Frampton, folio 45v. Description: “Monardes was the first to write of sassafras and advocate its use. During the sixteenth century, sassafras was one of the foremost of New World exports and was used in the treatment of syphilis, as well as to cure fevers, including those from malaria. Scientific name: Sassafras officinale.” Technique: Woodcut. Image Height: 11.1 cm. Image Width: 6.7 cm. Page Height: 17.5 cm. Page Width: 13 cm. Materials medium: ink. Materials support: paper. Accession number: 01798. Record number: 01798-1. JCB call number: B577 M735j. Provenance/Donor: Acquired in 1854. ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912.