Pharmacy]]> Hortus Eystettenis, a work commissioned by Prince Bishop Gemmingen, owner of the garden at Eichstätt. Besler produced the copperplate engravings for the work, which was printed in 1613. Although criticized for lacking scientific rigour, the illustrations of the flowers, in full bloom and colour, are exact. Opposite the ‘screaming’ mandrake is Acorus calamus (Sweet Flag or Calamus), which is used medicinally for a wide variety of ailments, and for making fragrances. One common use of Sweet Flag, either by chewing or infusion, is as a carminative and digestive bitter.]]> Basilius Besler]]> Pharmacy]]> Hortus Eystettenis, a work commissioned by Prince Bishop Gemmingen, owner of the garden at Eichstätt. Besler produced the copperplate engravings for the work, which was printed in 1613. Although criticized for lacking scientific rigour, the illustrations of the flowers, in full bloom and colour, are exact. Opposite the ‘screaming’ mandrake is Acorus calamus (Sweet Flag or Calamus), which is used medicinally for a wide variety of ailments, and for making fragrances. One common use of Sweet Flag, either by chewing or infusion, is as a carminative and digestive bitter.]]> Basilius Besler]]> Pharmacy]]> Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597. This work recorded plants from the then accessible parts of the globe and offered medicinal qualities or the ‘vertues’ of plants. This 1633 edition, enhanced by Thomas Johnson, a London apothecary and botanist, contains some 2850 descriptions of plants and 2700 illustrations. While some descriptions were new, including the banana, he offered advice on old familiars: Garlic (Allium sativum) was prescribed for a variety of ailments: sore throats, coughs, and flatulence. He added that garlic ‘killeth wormes in the belly, and driveth them forth,’ and ‘taketh away the morphew, tettars or ring-wormes, scabbed heads in children, dandraffe, and scurfe, tempered with honey, and the parts anointed therewith.’ On display are Gerard’s ‘vertues’ of Betony and Water-Betony.]]> [John Gerard]]]> Pharmacy]]> Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597. This work recorded plants from the then accessible parts of the globe and offered medicinal qualities or the ‘vertues’ of plants. This 1633 edition, enhanced by Thomas Johnson, a London apothecary and botanist, contains some 2850 descriptions of plants and 2700 illustrations. While some descriptions were new, including the banana, he offered advice on old familiars: Garlic (Allium sativum) was prescribed for a variety of ailments: sore throats, coughs, and flatulence. He added that garlic ‘killeth wormes in the belly, and driveth them forth,’ and ‘taketh away the morphew, tettars or ring-wormes, scabbed heads in children, dandraffe, and scurfe, tempered with honey, and the parts anointed therewith.’ On display are Gerard’s ‘vertues’ of Betony and Water-Betony.]]> [John Gerard]]]> Pharmacy]]> Betty Shaw-Lawrence]]> Text]]> Pharmacy]]> Betty Shaw-Lawrence]]> Pharmacy]]> Flora Huayaquilensis finally appeared, depicting a collection of some 625 plants. On display is Cinchona or Quina, native to South America. Named by Linnaeus in 1742, after the Countess of Chinchón, the wife of a viceroy of Peru, this plant is renowned for its medicinal properties, in particular a source for quinine.]]> [Juan Tafalla]]]> Medical Library]]> De Materia Medica, the ‘precursor to all modern pharmacopeaias’. Originally written in Greek, Dioscorides’s work was consulted as a medical text for the next fifteen centuries. Surprisingly it was only published in English for the first time in 1934 from a translation rendered by John Goodyer in 1665. This page explains, amongst other things, a remedy for a shrew-mouse bite. Slice said animal open and apply directly to the wound. Don’t try this at home!]]> Pedanius Dioscorides (Englished by John Goodyer, 1655)]]> Pharmacy]]> Naturalis Historia. This tome contains virtually everything known in the ancient world about mineralogy, geology, astronomy, history and botany and in it some 1000 different plants are mentioned. Despite his lack of scientific training, his strong reliance on earlier writers and some errors of fact, Pliny did advance botanical knowledge. The ‘Nightshade’, noted here on page 112, belongs to the Solanaceae family which includes datura, mandrake, belladonna, potato and tobacco plants. Some, like deadly nightshade, can cause harm as Pliny cites here- ‘this herb is so dangerous’ - and even death, while others can be cultivated for food.]]> Pliny Secundus]]> Pharmacy]]> Naturalis Historia. This tome contains virtually everything known in the ancient world about mineralogy, geology, astronomy, history and botany and in it some 1000 different plants are mentioned. Despite his lack of scientific training, his strong reliance on earlier writers and some errors of fact, Pliny did advance botanical knowledge. The ‘Nightshade’, noted here on page 112, belongs to the Solanaceae family which includes datura, mandrake, belladonna, potato and tobacco plants. Some, like deadly nightshade, can cause harm as Pliny cites here- ‘this herb is so dangerous’ - and even death, while others can be cultivated for food.]]> Pliny Secundus]]> Medical Library]]> Materia Medica, was the first great English work on what we now call pharmacology.]]> Jonathan Pereira]]> Pharmacy]]> Victorian Pharmacy which is based on the British television series of the same name. For this historical documentary, a complete and working Victorian pharmacy was recreated, allowing for a range of full colour photographs to be taken.]]> Jane Eastoe]]> Medical Library]]> Friedrich Mohr]]> Medical Library]]> Daniel Vangroenweghe]]> Medical Library]]> W. S. C. Copeman]]> Medical Library]]> David L. Cowen]]> Central Library]]> P. M. E. Williams]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> Murray R. Frost]]> Pharmacy]]> Murray R. Frost]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand]]> Pharmacy]]> ]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]>