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Herbalists

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Images from the collections

Images about Herbalists

2 images from works
  • A man with his two children consulting a herb doctor and negotiating a prescription. Wood engraving.
  • Part of the coronation procession of King James II, 23 April 1685, with a piper and drums bringing up the rear. Engraving by J. Collins, 1685.

Works from the collections

18 works

    • Ephemera

    Bought of J. Cope : wholesale & retail herbal medicine stores : 2, Cawdry Buildings, Cattle Market, Leek (Staffordshire) / John Cope.

    Cope, John. | Date: [1892?]
    • Books

    Heal thyself : Nicholas Culpeper and the seventeenth-century struggle to bring medicine to the people / Benjamin Woolley.

    Woolley, Benjamin. | Date: 2004
    • Books

    Herb doctors : pioneers in nineteenth-century American botanical medicine, and, A history of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati / by Wade Boyle ; with a foreword by Francis Brinker.

    Boyle, Wade. | Date: [1988], ©1988
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    A man with his two children consulting a herb doctor and negotiating a prescription. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 21446i
    • Pictures
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    Part of the coronation procession of King James II, 23 April 1685, with a piper and drums bringing up the rear. Engraving by J. Collins, 1685.

    | Date: [1685] | Reference: 32710i

Related topics

Herbs - Therapeutic use
United Kingdom
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal
Medicine, Traditional
Phytotherapy

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