Herbals
Herbals

Author: Agnes Arber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-12-11

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780521338790

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The reissue of the 1938 revised edition of a work originally published in 1912 indicates its lasting value as a classic survey on the development of botany as a distinct scientific discipline.

Medieval Herbals
Medieval Herbals

Author: Minta Collins

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780802083135

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Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.

The Art of Botanical Illustration
The Art of Botanical Illustration

Author: Wilfrid Blunt

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780486272658

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This beautiful book surveys the evolution of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of the 20th-century. 186 magnificent examples, over 30 in full color.

Medieval Herbal Remedies
Medieval Herbal Remedies

Author: Anne Van Arsdall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1136613889

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This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.

Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Anglo-Saxon Medicine

Author: Malcolm Laurence Cameron

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-07-22

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0521405211

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The first book to study Old English medical texts.