Stories
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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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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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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A short address to the faculty, and others whom it may concern, recommending the use of a new poultice : with the view of saving wholly the consumption of bread and oatmeal, (at this time in common use for poultices) being also a great saving in expence, and attended with many other advantages, not only to public hospitals, and the navy particularly, but to private families / by Thomas Payne.
Payne, Thomas.Date: 1796- Books
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On the characters, actions, and therapeutic uses of the ordeal bean of Calabar, (Physostigma venenosum, Balfour) : a graduation thesis, for which a gold medal was awarded by the Edinburgh University, August 1862 / by Thomas R. Fraser.
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920.Date: 1863- Books
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On the medical properties of the natural order Ranunculaceae : and more particularly on the uses of sabadilla seeds, Delphinium staphisagria, and Aconitum napellus, and their alcaloids, verateria, sabadilline, delphinia, and aconitine / by A. Turnbull.
Turnbull, Alexander, 1794 or 1795-1881.Date: 1838- Books
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The therapeutical powers and properties of veratrum viride / by Wesley C. Norwood.
Norwood, Wesley C., 1806-1884.Date: 1858- Books
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The therapeutical powers and properties of Veratrum viride / by Wesley C. Norwood.
Norwood, Wesley C., 1806-1884.Date: [1857]