A scripture herbal / By Maria Callcott.

  • Maria Graham
Date:
1842
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Credit: A scripture herbal / By Maria Callcott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    excite my admiration when a child, by the wonderful powers it ascribed to simples, especially if due regard were paid to gathering them at the rising and setting of their planets. It is a curious little work, and contains much that is rare, at least in our times. I have made use of another but very superior English tract, namely, that of Sir Thomas Brown; which professes to treat of all the plants named in Scripture, from the Fig-tree in Genesis to the Worm- wood of the Revelations. Gerard’s Herbal, and Dr. Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny, have been invaluable to me. Pub- lished but little before the authorised version of the Bible, the names of plants in them can hardly be other than those used by our venerable translators. The wood-cuts and histories in Gerard, and Pliny’s descriptions under the English names supplied by Holland, have often guided me to the true plant of which I was in search. Of the works written professedly on any branch of the natural history, I have made most use of the Hierohotanicon of Celsius. That learned man, who was in part the tutor of LinnaBus, and his predecessor in the chair of natural science at Upsal, employed fifty years in composing his most laborious work; and, when
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