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  • Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases. To which are added a few experiments on the vegetation of plants. Part I / By D. Hill.
  • The Empress Josephine walking with her retinue in a garden of labelled potted plants which include animated likenesses of prominent figures. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • 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].
  • Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S.
  • Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S.
  • Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard ex Rothm. Asparagaceae Bluebell. Perennial bulbous plant. Distribution W. Europe to N. Portugal. Seed and plants from wild stock are protected in England and Wales and all trade in them is prohibited, despite their abundance. All parts of the plant are poisonous and the sap can cause dermatitis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the access of many hundred new ... plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall material ... and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... collected ... / by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
  • Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the access of many hundred new ... plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall material ... and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... collected ... / by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
  • Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the access of many hundred new ... plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall material ... and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... collected ... / by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
  • Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the access of many hundred new ... plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall material ... and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... collected ... / by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body ... / [William Langham].
  • A complete herbal ... / by James Newton, containing the prints and the English names of several thousand trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, exotics, etc. Many of which are not to be found in the herbals of either Gerard, Johnson or Parkinson.
  • Lilium henryi Baker Liliaceae. Tiger Lily. Bulbous perennial. Distribution: China. This commemorates Dr Augustine Henry (1857–1930) who collected plants in China and Taiwan while working for Britain’s Imperial Customs Service (Oakeley, 2012). Reported to cause renal failure in cats. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Salvia coahuilensis Fernald Lamiaceae Coahuila Sage. Perennial shrub. Distribution: Mexico. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Its health giving properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Camellia sasanqua Thunb. Theaceae. Christmas camellia. Camellia commemorates Georg Josef Kamel (1661-1706), Jesuit pharmacist from Moravia (Czech Republic) who worked in the Philippines and sent plants to John Ray in England (Oakeley, 2012) Evergreen shrub. Distribution: Japan and China. Leaves are used in Japan to make tea (normally made from C. sinensis) and the seeds to make the edible tea seed oil. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The garden of health, containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be used and applyed in medicine ... against divers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men / Gathered by ... William Langham.
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.
  • Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.