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What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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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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Magnolia stellata (Siebold & Zuch.) Maxim. Magnoliaceae. Star magnolia. Small flowering tree. Distribution: Japan. Named for the French botanist and physician, Pierre Magnol (1638-1715), Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Montpelier. Charles Plumier (1646-1704) named a tree on Martinique after him (Magnolia) and the name was continued by Linnaeus (1753). No medicinal use. This is a very ancient genus of flowering plants. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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The healing forest : medicinal and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia / Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf ; foreword by H.R.H. Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Schultes, Richard Evans.Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
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An introduction to physic and surgery: containing I. Medicinal institutions, or Physiology, Hygieine, Pathology, Semeiotice, and Therapeutice. II. A Compendious System of Anatomy. III. A General Account of Wounds, Ulcers, Tumours, Operations, and Dressings; as also, the Medicines used in Surgery. IV. Botany and the Materia Medica. V. Pharmacy, as well Chemical as Galenical. VI. A Dispensatory, containing a great Variety of the most efficacious officinal Compositions, and extemporaneous Prescriptions. Vii. An Index of Diseases and their Remedies. Viii. A posological table, containing the Doses of all the Simples and Compounds. By R. Brookes, M.D. Author of the General Practice of Physic.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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An introduction to physic and surgery. Containing I. Medicinal institutions, or Physiology, Hygieine, Pathology, Semiotice, and Therapeutice. II. A compendious System of Anatomy. III. A general Account of Wounds, Ulcers, Tumors, Operations, and Dressings; as also, the Meditines used in Surgery. IV. Botany, and the Materia Medica. V. Pharmacy, as well Chemical as Galenical. VI. A Dispensatory, containing a great Variety of the most efficacious officinal Compositions, and extemporaneous Prescriptions. Vii. A Syllabus of the Symptoms of all the Diseases incident to the human Body. Viii. An Index of Diseases and their Remedies. IX. A Posologic Table, containing the Doses of all the Simples and Compounds. X. An explanation of the terms of art, accented as they are to be pronounced. By R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]
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An introduction to physic and surgery: containing. I. Medicinal institutions, or physiology, hygieine, pathology, semeiotice, and therapeutice. II. A compendious system of anatomy III. A general account of woods, ulcers, tumours, operations, and dressings; as also, the medicines used in surgery. IV. Botany and the materia medica. V. Pharmacy, as well chemical as Galenical. VI. A dispensatory, containing a great variety of the most efficacious officinal compositions, and extemporaneous prescriptions. VII. A syllabus of the symptoms of all the diseases incident to the human body. VIII. An index of diseases and their remedies. IX. A posologic table, containing the doses of all the simples and compounds. X. An explanation of the terms of art, accented as they are to be pronounced. / By R. Brookes, M.D.
Brookes, Richard, active 1750.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]