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Page 3 · DO #1236 · 53_Arber_AN5r
- Collection
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Agnes Robertson Arber (1879–1960) papers
- Item/Folder
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Notebook An 5 -- "Herbals and Herbalists", 1901–1904
- Digital Object
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DO #1236,
page 3
- Collection-level dates
- 1886–1985
Page transcription
Herbaria
1, 3, 5
Parkman. (Biographical) 6
Parkman's Herbal 7-19
Dodson & Henry Lyte (biographical) 20
Dodson's Herbal 21-31
Turner's "British Physician" 33
Pliny the Elder 35
Gerard, Fuchs, Ducreux (biographical) 36
"Phytolomoi" (Lucian) 37
Sach's History of Botany 39
Green's Herbal 43
Paradisi in Sole John Parkinson 45
Plantaeum Athinae - Lobel 53
Johnson's Gerard Biographical 54
Gerard's Herbal 55
Anonymous Anonymus (1525) 63
Bauhinus 67
Culpepper 69
Forster, Hooker, 28 Dodson, 29 Gerard 59, 61, 77
Historie des Plantes de l'Europe (Beaumont) 71
William Turner's Herbal 97
Thomas Hill (Puritanical Art of Gardening) 98
Coll. of Herbs at S.W. Polytechnic 101
Letters for Pup Holes 102
Herbals or Herbals
Agnes Robertson
Sept. 1901.
Herbal's Natural History of Plants
Rhygoteomoi. A guild in Ancient Greece whose members collected and prepared such roots, herbs as were considered to be curative or either sold them themselves, or caused them to be sold by the Apothecaries.
As late as the sixteenth century plants were looked at from a purely utilitarian point of view. People clung to the notion that everything upon the earth was created for the sake of mankind, or in particular what in any plant there was forces lying dormant, which if liberated would produce either the welfare or the injury of man.
Doctrine of Signatures. Highest degree in writing. Of Paracelsus Theophrastus Natural History of Plants. About 300BC
At the time of the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, no one troubled himself about plants other than those known to be in some way useful. There was a renaissance of Science as well as Art and Literature in the 16th century. People turned with youthful enthusiasm to the Greek writings on Natural History. The effect of the
