LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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HERBS BEING DUG UP AND MADE INTO MEDICINES UNDER THE DIRECTION 



OF A SAGE ....... Frontispiece 



AESCULAPIUS PLATO AND A CENTAUR FROM THE SAXON TRANSLATION OF 



THE " HERBARIUM OF APULEIUS " 10 



MANDRAKE FROM A SAXON HERBAL ....... 22 



(i) ARTEMISIA AND (2) BLACKBERRY, FROM A SAXON HERBAL . . 30 



FROM A SAXON HERBAL ........ .40 



WOODCUT OF TREES AND HERBS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF " DE 



PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM " . . . . . . .48 



INITIAL LETTERS FROM " BANCKES'S HERBAL " . . . . 56 



WOODCUT FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE " CRETE HERBALL " (1526) . 64 



WOODCUT OF PETER TREVERIS' SIGN OF THE " WODOWS " FROM THE 



" CRETE HERBALL " (1529) ........ 70 



WOODCUT FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE 



" CRETE HERBALL " (1561) ........ 74 



ILLUSTRATIONS FROM TURNER'S " HERBALL " ..... 88 



PORTRAIT OF JOHN GERARD FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF THE 



" HERBALL " (1597) ......... 104 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF SASSAFRAS AND TOBACCO FROM NICHOLAS MONARDES' 



"JOYFULL NfiWES OUT OF THE NfiWE FOUNDE WORLDE " (1577) . 128 



TITLE-PAGE OF PARKINSON'S " PARADISUS " (1629) .... 144 



TITLE-PAGE OF PARKINSON'S " THEATRUM BOTANICUM " (1640) . . 152 



PORTRAIT OF JOHN PARKINSON FROM THE " PARADISUS " (1629) . . 160 



NICHOLAS CULPEPER FROM " THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED " . . 166 



FRONTISPIECE OF " THE CURIOUS DESTILLATORY," BY THOMAS SHIRLEY, 



M.D., PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO His MAJESTY (1677) . . 174 



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