THE PROMISE OF GERARDS HERBALL - NEW DRUGS FROM OLD BOOKS

Authors
COX PA
Citation
Pa. Cox, THE PROMISE OF GERARDS HERBALL - NEW DRUGS FROM OLD BOOKS, Endeavour (English ed.), 22(2), 1998, pp. 51-53
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Endeavour (English ed.) → ACNP
ISSN journal
01609327
Volume
22
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
51 - 53
Database
ISI
SICI code
0160-9327(1998)22:2<51:TPOGH->2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Last December at the Chelsea Physic Garden, an extraordinary birthday party was hosted by the Linnean Society of London. The birthday celebr ation was unusual, not only because of the extreme age of the guest of honour, but because of the guest's identity: one hundred and fifty pa rticipants came to celebrate not a person, but a four century-old book , The Herball, or General Natural History of Plants, by John Gerard.