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And Here’s To You, Mrs. Grieve: Thyme to Revisit Those Old Herbal Books

And Here’s To You, Mrs. Grieve: Thyme to Revisit Those Old Herbal Books. David J. Owen, MLS,Ph.D. Kalmanovitz Library and CKM, UCSF. Herbal Renaissance in US. Resurgence of interest in 1970s Entered the mainstream in 1990s Problem of finding information Revisiting classic herbal texts.

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And Here’s To You, Mrs. Grieve: Thyme to Revisit Those Old Herbal Books

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  1. And Here’s To You, Mrs. Grieve: Thyme to Revisit Those Old Herbal Books David J. Owen, MLS,Ph.D. Kalmanovitz Library and CKM, UCSF David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  2. Herbal Renaissance in US • Resurgence of interest in 1970s • Entered the mainstream in 1990s • Problem of finding information • Revisiting classic herbal texts David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  3. Herbals • A book containing the names and descriptions of herbs, or of plants in general, with their properties and virtues; a treatise on plants David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  4. Prospecting for Drugs in Old Texts • Dioscorides wrote about nettle (Urtica dioica) • Used in Middle Ages as a diuretic • Rediscovered in 1990s • Investigated by German scientists David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  5. Greco-Roman and Medieval • Dioscorides • Gerard’s Herbal • Culpepper David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  6. Dioscorides David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  7. Gerard’s Herbal David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  8. Culpepper:The English Physician (1652) David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  9. Mrs. Maud Grieve • F.R.H.S. • A Modern Herbal (1936) • First “modern” herbal in hundred years David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  10. A Modern Herbal • 1936 • Medicinal and culinary herbs • Traditional herbalism • One of the top selling books on herbal harvesting and usage David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  11. 19th Century American Medical Movements and Botanicals • Eclecticism David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  12. Fyfe’s Materia Medica • The Essentials of Modern Materia Medica and Therapeuticsby John William Fyfe, M.D. (Eclectic Manual #6, 1903) David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  13. Cubreth’s Material Medica and Pharmacology • A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, by David M.R. Culbreth, Ph.G., M.D. (7th edition, 1927) • All official drug plants in the United States Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary up to 1927 David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  14. King's American Dispensatory • by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D., and John Uri Lloyd, Phr. M., Ph. D., 1898 David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  15. The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy • Finley Ellingwood, M.D David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  16. Online • History of Herbals • http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/herb/menu.html • SouthWest School of Botanical Medicine • http://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html • Henrietta’s Herbal Web Page • http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/ • Mrs. Grieve’s Modern Herbal • http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

  17. “Between tradition and modernity there is a bridge. When they are mutually isolated, tradition stagnates and modernity vaporizes; when in conjunction, modernity breathes life into tradition, while the later replies with depth and gravity.” • Octavio Paz, Nobel Lecture, 1990 David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004

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