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Plants, Medicinal

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Plants, Useful

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Images from the collections

Images about Plants, Medicinal

673 images from works
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • Marsh mallow plant (Althaea officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1906.
  • Opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna): flowering plants growing in woodland. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi): fruiting stem. Watercolour by B. Bird.
  • [Leaflet advertising Lord & Lady flower essences (Glastonbury), a form of vibrational healing].
  • Damask rose (Rosa damascena "Italica"): flowering stem. Colour halftone after Victor, c.1824, after P. J. Redouté.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
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Works from the collections

2,593 works

    • Books

    The useful plants of west tropical Africa / H. M. Burkill.

    Humphrey Morrison Burkill | Date: 1985-
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    Der Thüringer Kräutergarten : von Heilkräutern, Hexen und Buckelapothekern / Otto Ludwig ; durchgesehen und überarbeitet von Michael Gutheil und Eberhard Mey.

    Ludwig, Otto | Date: [1995]
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    Pharmacographia : A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India / by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury.

    Friedrich August Flückiger | Date: 1874
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    O método bioquimico de Bourquelot e sua aplicação ao estudo de algumas plantas medicinais brasileiras / Oswaldo A. Costa.

    Costa, Oswaldo A. | Date: 1937
    • Pictures

    Nux-vomica plant (Strychnos nux-vomica): flowering stem, sectioned fruit and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

    Burnett, M. A., active 1850. | Date: [1847] | Reference: 23824i
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Related topics

Botany
Plants, Useful
Materia Medica
Plants
Plants, Cultivated
Herbal medicine
Herbs
History, 18th Century
Cinchona
History, 19th Century

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