# Herbalisti & The Herbalisti Chronicles

> Herbalisti is a natural-medicine research and discovery platform hosting *The Herbalisti Chronicles*, a prologue, 25 dramatic stories, and an epilogue by Marc W. Gough.

## Chronicles Overview
* **Title**: The Herbalisti Chronicles
* **Subtitle**: Stories of Blood, Bark, and the Lost Garden
* **Author**: Marc W. Gough `[  so.design  ]`
* **Copyright Notice**: `Copyright © [  so.design  ] 2026 Author Marc W. Gough. All Rights Reserved.`
* **Edition**: Definitive Narrative Edition (2026)
* **Scope**: A prologue, 25 dramatic stories, and an epilogue exploring plant remedies in the context of household medicine, ritual, food security, hygiene, nutrition, seasons, childbirth, mortality, access to care, and struggles for control of medical knowledge.
* **Evidence policy**: Corpus search results are discovery leads. A source is cited only when its corpus record resolves; quotations require verification against a page image and locator.

## Visual Plates & Primary Archives
* **Etching Plates**: 27 dedicated 18th-century monochrome copperplate etchings (`plate_01_monastic_herbarium.jpg` through `plate_27_library_index.jpg`).
* **Historical Corpus Archive**: 2,720 rights-cleared historical medical works cross-referenced across the National Library of Medicine, Wellcome Collection, and Project Gutenberg.

## Key Web & Data Links
* [The Herbalisti Chronicles Reader](https://herbalisti.com/): Interactive reader and narrative-edition landing page.
* [Print & PDF Hardcover Edition](https://herbalisti.com/data/book/the-herbalisti-codex-print.html): Book publishing print layout with paged media CSS.
* [Public Data API Catalog](https://herbalisti.com/data/api-catalog.json): Structured JSON endpoints for reference books, remedies, herbal profiles, and citation notes.

## Public JSON Datasets
* `/data/book/manuscript.json`: Complete Chronicles JSON structure with prologue, 25 stories, epilogue, glossary, and evidence guide.
* `/data/reference-books.json`: Index of 1,502 historical reference books.
* `/data/herbal-knowledge.json`: Index of 123 detailed herbal profiles.
* `/data/remedies.json`: Historical treatment records.
* `/data/citation-notes.json`: Bibliographic citations and evidence notes.
* `/data/sources.json`: Registry of public sources and rights status.