London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. The fragmentation of herbal history: the way forward / Anne Stobart and Susan Francia — 2. Early Greek medicine: evidence of models, methods and materia medica / Vicki Pitman — 3. Evaluating the content of medieval herbals / Anne Van Arsdall — 4. Early-modern midwifery manuals and herbal practice / Elaine Hobby — 5. An anatomy of the English Physitian / Graeme Tobyn — 6. The use of trade accounts to uncover the importance of cumin as a medicinal plant in medieval England / Susan Francia — 7. Early modern childbirth and herbs – the challenge of finding the sources – nicky wesson — 8. Testamentary records of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries as a source for the history of herbal medicine in England / Richard Aspin — 9. Galen’s simple medicines: problems in ancient herbal medicine / John Wilkins — 10. Deciphering dioscorides: mountains and molehills? / Alison Denham and Midge Whitelegg — 11. William Turner : a milestone in botanical medicine / Marie Addyman — 12. John Parkinson: gardener and apothecary of London / Jill Francis — 13. Archaeological sources for the history of herbal medicine practice : the case study of St John’s wort with valerian at Soutra medieval hospital / Brian Moffat — 14. How can ethnobotany contribute to the history of western herbal medicine? a Mesoamerican answer / Anna Waldstein — 15. The history of herbal medicine as a developing field / Anne Stobart and Susan Francia.
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