A garden of medicinal plants describes 50 plants from the Medicinal Garden at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) that are sources of ancient and modern medicines.
It outlines their uses, discovery, history, mythology and the illnesses they treat or cause, sourced from the earliest herbals to modern pharmacopoeias and medical journals. The book presents over 100 photos and woodcuts and brief biographies of the medical authors of past millennia.
The modern references have been omitted from the book due to space considerations but are available online.
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