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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Makers of British botany : a collection of biographies by living botanists / edited by F.W. Oliver.
Date: 1913- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook containing notes on materia medica, family history, and the history of Plough Court
Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875.Date: January 1857 - August 1858Reference: MS.8357Part of: Hanbury, Daniel (1825-1875), pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
Out-letter book
Daniel Hanbury, 1825-1875, pharmacologistDate: August 1858 - November 1860Reference: MS.5304Part of: Hanbury, Daniel (1825-1875), pharmacologist- Books
Joachim II. Camerarius (1534 - 1598) : eine Studie über sein Leben, seine Werke und seine Briefwechsel / Svenja Wenning, geb. Gröne.
Wenning, SvenjaDate: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898