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A Garden of Medicinal Plants
The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years. Some of the people, ideas, objects and manuscripts featured are directly connected to the College, while others have had an influence that can still be felt in its work. This, the second book in the Reflections series, focuses on the RCP's gardens and their history; important plants and doctors and others involved the gardens' development.
Modern Medicines from Plants
The full colour, beautifully illustrated Modern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicine’s most important drugs features information on plants from which we obtain modern prescription medicines. It outlines their historical uses as herbal medicines in the past two millennia, using primary sources, and describes how extracts from them, and their semisynthetic and synthetic derivatives, were developed to be today’s therapeutic drugs and diagnostic chemicals. This book describes medicinal plants and their habitats, the diseases that their medicines treat, and the science of how they work. This amazing and unique book is a wonderful read for those with an interes...
Doctors in the Medicinal Garden
Doctors in the Medicinal Garden explores the history, cultivation and uses of 60 plants found in the garden of the Royal College of Physicians, which are named after doctors and apothecaries
English Delftware Apothecary Jars and Their Contents
Professor Victor Hoffbrand's collection of English Delftware apothecary jars, displayed at the Royal College of Physicians in London, is the second largest such collection in the world. Built up over 40 years, it contains just under 200 jars, many unique, with examples of all the most frequently used designs. Their dates span from 1640, in the reign of Charles I before the English Civil War, to 1780, George III and the American Declaration of Independence. For those interested in ceramics or the history of plant-based medicine, this is a source book of unparalleled interest and authority, complete with bibliographies, biographies, and glossaries of technical terms and 'materia medica'.
