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Title:

Critical approaches to the history of Western herbal medicine : from classical antiquity to the Early Modern period / edited by Susan Francia and Anne Stobart.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academican imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Herbs--History.--History.
Materia medica, Vegetable--History.

Other Authors:

Francia, Susan, editor.
Stobart, Anne, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303-336) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1474255043
9781474255042

OCLC:

(OCoLC)903424296

Locations:

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)