Nature's Apothecary
$57.40
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book shows the social, cultural and historical importance of plants and their role in both formal and folk medicine.
Herbs have been used for centuries to cure all manner of ailments. They were especially important as home remedies for the many people without access to a trained physician before the advent of affordable healthcare. In the Middle Ages, monastery gardens were used to cultivate plants to treat not only their own h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851246694 |
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| ISBN-10: | 185124669X |
| Author: | Margaret Willes |
| Publisher: | Bodleian Library |
| Imprint: | Bodleian Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 450g |
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Critics Review
’… the illustrations, beautifully detailed in subtle greens and browns, are from Gerard’s Herbell… They provide one of the chief delights of this lovely edition, although there is much to savour in the words too.
– Laura Parker * Books *A wonderful book for an English summer … This handsome volume, the fourth for Bodleian Library Publishing by botanical expert Margaret Willes, picks up 100 plants that in different ways have been used medicinally … Hardbacked with a resplendent blue keeper strand, this book would make a terrific gift.
– Richard Lofthouse * QUAD *Margaret Willes
Margaret Willes is the author of Pick of the Bunch: The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2009), A Shakespearean Botanical (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2015) and The Domestic Herbal: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2020).
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