Stories
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
- Article
What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- Article
Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Herbal remedies; text
- Digital Images
- Online
Herbal remedies; text
- Digital Images
- Online
Herbal remedies; text
- Books
Herbal remedies of the maritime Indians / R. Frank Chandler [and others].
Date: 1979- Books
Herbal remedies and recipes and some others / Mary Thorne Quelch ; with drawings by Irene Hawkins.
Quelch, Mary Thorne.Date: [1945]