Art Hx, a project examining the lasting impact of colonialism on medicine and healthcare, explores themes that range from slavery’s influence on modern medical care for Black women to colonial attitudes about indigenous botanicals for the treatment of illness. In German naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian’s 1701 illustration of the peacock flower, the artist notes that this medicinal plant was used by enslaved women in Suriname to abort their pregnancies. SOURCE: THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM