Introduction
Introduction
Table of Contents.
Introduction: English-speaking
Our most diligent searcher of old Herbals, Miss Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, in The Old English Herbals, thus dwells on Gerard's charm: "His…
Introduction: Gerard
Life of Gerard.
Introduction: Barber-Surgeons
The year following he was attacked by a "most greevous ague and of long continuance". He was appointed Junior Warden of the…
Introduction: Herbal
No will of our Author has been found at Somerset House, but it seems improbable that he acquired wealth, and the printer of the Herbal may…
Introduction: Johnson
The original edition of 1597 is seldom quoted, for the enlarged and amended edition, by Thomas Johnson, of 1633, of which a second edition…
Introduction: Latine
IN this Hiftorie of Plants it would be tedious, to vfe by way of introduction any curious difcourfe vpon the generall diuifion of Plants…
Introduction: Plant
The fecond, moft forts of Herbs vfed for meat, medicine, or fweet fmell. The third hath Trees, Shrubs, Bufhes, Fruit-bearing Plants…