Stories
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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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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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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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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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London botanic gardens / by Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès.
Perrédès, Pierre Élie Félix.Date: [1906]- Books
Le jardin des plantes de Montpellier : le plus ancien jardin de France - 1593 / Assocation des amis du jardin des plantes de Montpellier.
Date: [1983]- Books
Mater herbarum : fonti e tradizione del Giardino dei semplici della Scuola medica Salernitana / a cura di Massimo Venturi Ferriolo.
Date: 1995- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]