Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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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.
Catalogue
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China rose or Shoe flower (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.): two flowering stems and separate fruits, flower and seeds - both whole and sectioned. Coloured line engraving by G. Appelman after M. Splinter.
Splinter, Marcelis, 1634-Date: [1686]Reference: 16212i- Books
The Indian pharmaceutical codex. Vol. I - Indigenous drugs / by B. Mukerji.
Mukerji, B. (Bishnu), 1903-Date: 1953- Pictures
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Garden rocket (Eruca vesicaria (L.) Cav. subsp. sativa (Miller) Thell.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
Reference: 17192i- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01 (copy, part 1)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 1
Date: December 1881 - May 1897Reference: WF/E/03/01 (copy, part 2)Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd