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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- That practical knowledge eventually fed into early pharmacology, and several plant compounds first catalogued in monastery gardens are still used as the basis for modern medicines today.
- Over generations, monks recorded which plants worked and which did not, compiling handwritten herbals that preserved this practical knowledge for future caretakers.
- This organization meant that a monk treating a feverish traveler could walk directly to the correct bed of the garden rather than searching among unrelated plants.
- Monks typically organized these gardens by ailment, grouping together the plants used to treat fevers, wounds, or digestive troubles so that remedies could be located quickly.
- Long before pharmacies existed, monasteries across medieval Europe maintained walled gardens devoted entirely to growing plants believed to have medicinal properties.