The History of Domestic Plant Medicine
Title | The History of Domestic Plant Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Hatfield |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 1999-09-10 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 075249516X |
The debt medicine owes to botany is not commonly appreciated. In the past, medicine relied almost entirely on plants, and even today, many western medicines are plant derived. Despite this, historians have largely neglected the study of domestic medicine, practised by the ordinary person and passed down through generations, in favour of 'official medicine'. The History of Domestic Plant Medicine brings together manuscripts, letters, diaries, personal oral interviews and other primary evidence to produce a detailed picture of the medicinal use of native plants in Britain from 1700 to the present day. Recording for posterity this neglected aspect of our heritage, it is a valuable contribution to the study of the folklore of modern Britain and a fascinating piece of social history.
Memory, Wisdom, and Healing
Title | Memory, Wisdom, and Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Hatfield |
Publisher | Alan Sutton Publishing |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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The author gathers together a wealth of material from mmanuscripts, letters, diaries and personal interviews which collectively reveal a detailed picture of the use of domestic remedies in Britain.
The History of Domestic Plant Medicine
Title | The History of Domestic Plant Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Hatfield |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 1999-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 075249516X |
The debt medicine owes to botany is not commonly appreciated. In the past, medicine relied almost entirely on plants, and even today, many western medicines are plant derived. Despite this, historians have largely neglected the study of domestic medicine, practised by the ordinary person and passed down through generations, in favour of ‘official medicine’. The History of Domestic Plant Medicine brings together manuscripts, letters, diaries, personal oral interviews and other primary evidence to produce a detailed picture of the medicinal use of native plants in Britain from 1700 to the present day. Recording for posterity this neglected aspect of our heritage, it is a valuable contribution to the study of the folklore of modern Britain and a fascinating piece of social history.
The Natural History of Medicinal Plants
Title | The Natural History of Medicinal Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Sumner |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-04-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780881929577 |
Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to treat fever, pain, and inflammation. Writing for the lay reader, the author surveys the history of the use of plants in medicine, the range of chemicals produced by plants, and the prospects for future discoveries. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.
The New Family Herbal; Or, Domestic Physician
Title | The New Family Herbal; Or, Domestic Physician PDF eBook |
Author | WILLIAM. MEYRICK |
Publisher | Gale Ecco, Print Editions |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781379634140 |
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T083981 With a preliminary leaf comprising an advertisement and list of errata, and three final advertisement leaves. Birmingham: printed by Thomas Pearson; and sold by R. Baldwin, London, 1790. [2], xxiv,498, [6]p., plates; 8°
Bitter Roots
Title | Bitter Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Abena Dove Osseo-Asare |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 022608616X |
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.
Herbal Medicine
Title | Herbal Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Iris F. F. Benzie |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2011-03-28 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1439807167 |
The global popularity of herbal supplements and the promise they hold in treating various disease states has caused an unprecedented interest in understanding the molecular basis of the biological activity of traditional remedies. Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects focuses on presenting current scientific evidence of biomolecular ef