Gabrielle Hatfield
ISBN:9781843835059
Many domestic plant remedies were used within living memory in rural East Anglia - and indeed survive today, as shown in this volume. Informants have been for the most part elderly country people...
Format:Paperback Pages:162
USD $37.02
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Gabrielle Hatfield
ISBN:9781576078747
A wide-ranging compilation on the "materia medica" of the ordinary people of Britain and North America, comparing practices in both places. Got whooping cough? Try fried mice. There are over 200 A-Z entries on all aspects of folk medicine...
Format:hardback Pages:325
USD $136.54
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Gabrielle Hatfield
ISBN:9780140515770
From ivy wreathed buildings to the dandelions growing through the cracks between paving stones, we are surrounded by a wealth of native plants. In the past they were a hugely valued resource: magical...
Format:Hardback Pages:464
USD $43.90
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Gabrielle Hatfield
ISBN:9780750934626
The debt owed to botany by medicine is not commonly appreciated. In the past, medicine relied almost entirely on plants, and even today, many western medicines are plant-derived. Historians have largely neglected domestic medicine in favour of 'official medicine'. Although an impressive amount of information is available in primary sources...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
USD $24.38
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David E Allen;Gabrielle Hatfield
ISBN:9780881926385
Assembled by two of the most distinguished botanical and ethnological scholars in Britain, this book chronicles the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the plain folk of Britain and Ireland. The history of these plants' usages has been mined from rich firsthand accounts captured by surveys...
Format:Hardcover Pages:431
USD $35.06
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Hatfield Gabrielle
ISBN:9780141025148
"Hatfield's Herbal" is the story of how people all over Britain have used its wild plants throughout history, for reasons magical, mystical and medicinal. Gabrielle Hatfield has drawn on a lifetime's knowledge to describe the properties of over 150 native plants...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:450
USD $21.41
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