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Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis Rubiaceae. Cape jasmine - as erroneously believed to have come from South Africa. Distribution: China. Named for Dr Alexander Garden FRS (1730-1791) Scottish-born physician and naturalist who lived in Charles Town, South Carolina, and corresponded with Linnaeus and many of the botanists of his era. The fruits are used in China both as a source of a yellow dye, and for various unsubstantiated medicinal uses. Other species of Gardenia are found in tropical Africa and the roots and leaves have all manner of putative uses. Gardenia tenuifolia is used as an aphrodisiac, for rickets, diarrhoea, leprosy, gall bladder problems, toothache, liver complaints, diabetes, hypertension, malaria and abdominal complaints. It causes violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It, and other species, are used to poison arrows and to poison fish. Some native, muthi medicine, healers regard Gardenia as a ‘last chance’ medicine, given to patients when all else fails – the patient either dies or recovers (Neuwinger, 1996). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Cape jasmine (Gardenia coronaria): flowering stem with separate floral and fruit segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.
Date: [1800]Reference: 20142i- Pictures
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Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16263i- Books
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An account of the plants Halesia and Gardenia.In a letter from John Ellis, Esq; F.R.S. to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F.R.S.
Ellis, John, 1710?-1776.Date: 1760]- Pictures
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Eight plants, including two orchids, a gardenia and a clematis: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
Date: 1837Reference: 27845i- Books
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An account of the gardenia. In a letter to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F.R.S. from Daniel C. Solander, M.D. Read at the Royal Society December 23, 1762.
Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Videos
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's garden. Part 1, Dangerous ideas.
Darwin, Charles, 1758-1778.Date: 2009- Videos
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's garden. Part 2, The storm breaks.
Darwin, Charles, 1758-1778.Date: 2009- Videos
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's garden. Part 3, Of apes and men.
Darwin, Charles, 1758-1778.Date: 2009- Ephemera
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The Garden Pizza : free delivery / The Garden Pizza.
Garden Pizza.Date: [2000]- Books
Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.
Ewan, Joseph, 1909-1999.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Portraying plants : botanical illustrators at the Chelsea Physic Garden / by Ruth Stungo.
Stungo, Ruth.Date: [1995]- Books
The discovery and development of medicines from plants / Chelsea Physic Garden.
Chelsea Physic Garden.Date: 1991- Books
Common ailments of man / edited by Morris Fishbein.
Date: 1945- Journals
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Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Date: 1914-- Books
Modern home medical adviser : your health and how to preserve it / [Morris Fishbein].
Fishbein, Morris, 1889-1976.Date: [1942]- Books
The customs of mankind : with notes on modern etiquette and entertainment / by Lillian Eichler ; many illustrations from photographs, and from pen-and-ink drawings by Phillipps Ward.
Eichler, Lillian, 1902-Date: 1924- Books
Places, plants and people : a medicinal map of Edinburgh / Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; map written by Jean Bareham.
Royal Botanic Garden, EdinburghDate: [2014?]- Books
Sophie's shell / Jo Rooks.
Rooks, JoDate: [2019]- Books
The medical book of Malayan medicine / translated by Inche' Ismail, Munshi, possibly in Penang, circa 1886 ; now edited with medical notes by J.D. Gimlette and determinations of the drugs by I.H. Burkill.
Date: 1930- Books
Botanic gardens of the world : materials for a history.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden.Date: 1937- Books
Freezing combination main dishes / Human Nutrition Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
Date: 1954- Books
Within our walls / by Ruth Stungo.
Stungo, Ruth.Date: [1993]- Books
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Housing in town and country : being a report of a conference of the Garden City Association, held in the Grand Hall, Criterion Restaurant, London, on March 16th, 1906 / papers and addresses by the Right Hon. Lord Carrington, Lord Justice Fletcher-Moulton ... and others ; with an introduction by Thomas Adams.
Garden City Association (London, England)Date: [1906]- Books
Strategy in handling people / by Ewing T. Webb and John J.B. Morgan.
Webb, Ewing T. (Ewing Thruston)Date: [1930], ©1930