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Herbs

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Images

  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A mallow plant (Abutilon sp.): flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • [Leaflet advertising Neal's Yard natural remedies, cosmetics, herbal tinctures and medicinal herbs & powders].
  • Germander (Teucrium massiliense L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • A plant (Borago sp.) related to borage: flowering and fruiting stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Toadflax (Linaria arvensis): flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1775.
  • Yours for purity : Slade's spices / D. & L. Slade Co.
  • Thomas Dowland, botanist and student in astrology. Oil painting by J. Bowring.
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Works

    • Books

    Der Thüringer Kräutergarten : von Heilkräutern, Hexen und Buckelapothekern / Otto Ludwig ; durchgesehen und überarbeitet von Michael Gutheil und Eberhard Mey.

    Ludwig, Otto | Date: [1995]
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    Pharmacographia : A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury.

    Flückiger, Friedrich A. (Friedrich August), 1828-1894 | Date: 1874
  • view Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
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    Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

    Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 18104i
    • Books

    Traité des simples / Ibn Al Baytar ; traduction de Lucien Leclerc.

    Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1248 | Date: 1987
    • Books

    Bhāvaprakāśaḥ / Śrīmallaṭakatanaya-ŚrīBhāvamiśraviracitaḥ ; Hindī 'Sarvāṅgasundarī' vyākhyā sahitaḥ.

    Bhāvamiśra, active 16th century | Date: 1968-1970
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