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 Elizabeth Blackwell >
Curious Herbal
Curious Tale




A story of a remarkable woman whose life's work was produced out of desperation.  An episode that was to draw down the judgement of the 'father of botany' Carl Linnaeus.  



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Chelsea Physic Garden Newsletter   May 2005
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The history of ​​A Curious Herbal continued in the other great contemporary botanical publishing centre, Nuremburg, under Christoph Jakob Trew.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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