Stories
- 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.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
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Le hoàng-nàn, remède tonquinois contre la rage, la lèpre et autres maladies / par E.C. Lesserteur.
Date: 1879- E-journals
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Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology.
Date: ©1994-- Books
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine : From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / edited by Susan Francia and Anne Stobart.
Date: 2014- Pictures
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Hanuman, the monkey god, brings a Himalayan mountain with the herb sanjeevani to cure his brother Lakshman. Watercolour painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 574952i- Pictures
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A monkey dressed in preparation against the cholera epidemic. Etching, c. 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 17853i