Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> ]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> ]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> ]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> ___]]> ___]]> ]]> ___]]> ]]> ___]]> ___]]> ]]> ___]]> Pharmacy]]> Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597. This work recorded plants from the then accessible parts of the globe and offered medicinal qualities or the ‘vertues’ of plants. This 1633 edition, enhanced by Thomas Johnson, a London apothecary and botanist, contains some 2850 descriptions of plants and 2700 illustrations. While some descriptions were new, including the banana, he offered advice on old familiars: Garlic (Allium sativum) was prescribed for a variety of ailments: sore throats, coughs, and flatulence. He added that garlic ‘killeth wormes in the belly, and driveth them forth,’ and ‘taketh away the morphew, tettars or ring-wormes, scabbed heads in children, dandraffe, and scurfe, tempered with honey, and the parts anointed therewith.’ On display are Gerard’s ‘vertues’ of Betony and Water-Betony.]]> [John Gerard]]]> Pharmacy]]> Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597. This work recorded plants from the then accessible parts of the globe and offered medicinal qualities or the ‘vertues’ of plants. This 1633 edition, enhanced by Thomas Johnson, a London apothecary and botanist, contains some 2850 descriptions of plants and 2700 illustrations. While some descriptions were new, including the banana, he offered advice on old familiars: Garlic (Allium sativum) was prescribed for a variety of ailments: sore throats, coughs, and flatulence. He added that garlic ‘killeth wormes in the belly, and driveth them forth,’ and ‘taketh away the morphew, tettars or ring-wormes, scabbed heads in children, dandraffe, and scurfe, tempered with honey, and the parts anointed therewith.’ On display are Gerard’s ‘vertues’ of Betony and Water-Betony.]]> [John Gerard]]]> Pharmacy]]> Flora Huayaquilensis finally appeared, depicting a collection of some 625 plants. On display is Cinchona or Quina, native to South America. Named by Linnaeus in 1742, after the Countess of Chinchón, the wife of a viceroy of Peru, this plant is renowned for its medicinal properties, in particular a source for quinine.]]> [Juan Tafalla]]]> Pharmacy]]> Alan Dove]]> Pharmacy]]> Arthur Owen Bentley]]>