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  • Hanuman with the sun in his tail carrying the Mountain of Healing Herbs. Gouache drawing.
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • Add spice to your life : your guide to healthy eating with herbs and spices / Tesco.
  • Add spice to your life : your guide to healthy eating with herbs and spices / Tesco.
  • Add spice to your life : your guide to healthy eating with herbs and spices / Tesco.
  • Prunella vulgaris L. Lamiaceae Self Heal, Carpenter’s Herb, Sicklewort, Consolida minor. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650): ‘See Bugle. So shall I not need to write the same thing twice, the vertues being the same.’ Under Bugle he writes: ‘Bugula. Bugle or middle Comfrey ... excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves congealed blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the rickets and other stoppings of the Liver, outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangrenes and fistulas, it helps broken bones and dislocations. To conclude, let my countrymen esteem it as a Jewel...’ Bugle is Ajuga reptans which has the same creeping habit, but is in another genus. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • [Illustrated order form for The Chelsea Herbalist's (Worthing, west Sussex) bags of dried herbs and pot pourri].
  • [Illustrated order form for The Chelsea Herbalist's (Worthing, west Sussex) bags of dried herbs and pot pourri].
  • [Illustrated order form for The Chelsea Herbalist's (Worthing, west Sussex) bags of dried herbs and pot pourri].
  • [Illustrated order form for The Chelsea Herbalist's (Worthing, west Sussex) bags of dried herbs and pot pourri].
  • A shelf of bottles containing medicinal chemicals, with dried herbs suspended from a hook. Watercolour by Lucy Pierce.
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this ... being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick... / by Nich. Culpeper.
  • Succisia pratensis Greene Asteraceae. Devil’s Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons. Distribution: Europe, W Asia, Africa. Culpeper (1650), under ‘Herbs’ he writes: ‘Succisa, Morsus diobolo, Devil’s Bit. Inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother [probably uterine spasm or pain], and breaks wind, taketh away the swellings in the mouth, and slimy phlegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world, for those cold swellings of the neck, which the vulgar call the Almonds [lymph nodes] of the neck than this herb bruised and applied to them. Folk lore attribute it as a cure-all which was so successful that the Devil bit off the bottom of the roots when he saw it growing down into Hades. However, the roots show no sign of such damage to support the myth. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The Chelsea Physic Garden, London: two men at work in a laboratory drying and sorting seeds for research on medicinal herbs. Photograph, 1921.
  • The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich. Culpeper.
  • The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich. Culpeper.
  • The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich. Culpeper.
  • The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich. Culpeper.
  • A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin, : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same / gathered and made by Wylliam Turner.
  • The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues ... Also it geveth parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
  • The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues ... Also it geveth parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
  • The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues ... Also it geveth parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
  • The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues ... Also it geveth parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
  • The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues ... Also it geveth parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
  • The grete herball whiche gyueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes and there gracyous vertues ... Also it geveth parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prynted by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery.
  • Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica