FW: SBLD - Herbals & Early Gardening Books

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• Subject: [GWL]: FW: SBLD - Herbals & Early Gardening Books
• From: "Lon J. Rombough" lonrom@hevanet.com>
• Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:42:41 -0800
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From: "Scott D. Russell" <srussell@OU.EDU>
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: SBLD - Herbals & Early Gardening Books
Date: Sun, Mar 10, 2002, 11:06 PM


March 11, 2002
Herbals & Early Gardening Books
http://www.goldcanyon.com/Patten/

The Herbals & Early Gardening Books provides a brief description of
148 herbals and usually an image of the frontispiece. Books are listed
by author, title and subject (interestingly, these are not
cross-listed, so it is a bit confusing). Thumbnail views are available
for the frontispiece images. As noted in the introduction to the site,
"...writers of early herbals were more concerned with curing illnesses
than describing plants, and thus these early publications included
remedies not only from the plant world, but also from the animal and
mineral kingdoms." Many pre-date Linnean botanical classification. As
with most herbal treatments, you would be better off seeing a doctor
than following 16th century remedies on unidentified plants, even if
you had the whole book. These are from the Doris and Marc Patten
Collection at Hayden Library's Special Collections Department,
Arizona State University. (***) -S

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