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Famine 150 : commemorative lecture series / edited by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Date: 1997- Books
Potato blight.
Date: [1951]- Books
The potato : from the Andes in the sixteenth century to fish and chips the story of how a vegetable changed history / Larry Zuckerman.
Zuckerman, Larry.Date: 1998- Books
Tomatoes, lycopene and human health : preventing chronic diseases / edited by Dr. A. Venket Rao.
Date: [2006]- Pictures
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Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 27643i- Books
Garden variety : the American tomato from corporate to heirloom / John Hoenig.
Hoenig, JohnDate: [2017]- Pictures
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Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1861Reference: 24544i- Pictures
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Ten flowering plants, including two orchids and an iris. Coloured transfer lithograph, c. 1833.
Date: 1833Reference: 27295i- Pictures
Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia L.): entire flowering plant with separate segments of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17238i- Pictures
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Vine spinach (Basella rubra L.): entire fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 17028i- Books
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Essays on medical subjects, originally printed separately; to which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders / By Thomas Gataker.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: 1764- Digital Images
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Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Major herbs of ayurveda / compiled by the Dabur Research Foundation and Dabur Ayurvet Limited ; edited by Elizabeth M. Williamson ; foreword by Malcolm Hooper.
Date: 2002- Books
Biotechnology : enhancing research on tropical crops in Africa / edited by G. Thottappilly [and others].
Date: [1992], ©1992