Stories
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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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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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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.
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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.
Catalogue
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Quakers in natural history & medicine in Ireland & Britain / [edited for the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin by E. Charles Nelson].
Date: 1996- Books
A concordance to Erasmus Darwin's poem "The Botanic Garden" / compiled by Desmond King-Hele.
King-Hele, Desmond, 1927-2019.Date: 1994- Books
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An address and lecture, delivered before the Botanic Society in Columbus, Ohio / by William Hance.
Hance, William.Date: 1830- Pictures
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Botanic Gardens, Oxford: plan of the gardens with details of the gateway and greenhouses. Etching, 1707, after D. Loggan.
Loggan, David, 1635-1700?Date: 1707Reference: 21214i- Books
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Botanic materia medica, or, The physician's guide to the remedies of the botanic kingdom : embracing the principal articles in use, with a brief account of their medicinal properties / by B.O. & G.C. Wilson.
Wilson, B. O.Date: 1850