Common garlic (Allium sativum): bulb, flower head, single flower and single clove. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1850.

  • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
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[1850]
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23796i
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Common garlic (Allium sativum): bulb, flower head, single flower and single clove. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1850. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Common garlic when worn round the neck was said to ward off Trolls, Vampires, etc.

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[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1850]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Allium sativum

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Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1850

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Wellcome Collection 23796i

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