. Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. Botany; Botany; Herbals. 44 The Earlier English Herbals [CH. these hylles drawe ye shyppes that have nayles of yren to them, and breke the shyppes up drawynge of the nayles ; This description is illustrated by a picture of a rocky pinnacle and a ship going to pieces ; one man is already in the water, and two others are on the point of losing their lives. Many of the remedies for different ailments strike the modern reader as being violent in a terrifying degree, and adapted to a more robust age than
. Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. Botany; Botany; Herbals. 44 The Earlier English Herbals [CH. these hylles drawe ye shyppes that have nayles of yren to them, and breke the shyppes up drawynge of the nayles ; This description is illustrated by a picture of a rocky pinnacle and a ship going to pieces ; one man is already in the water, and two others are on the point of losing their lives. Many of the remedies for different ailments strike the modern reader as being violent in a terrifying degree, and adapted to a more robust age than the present; they incline sae^eoaface*. Text-fig. 21. "Nenufar" = Waterlily [The Crete Herball, 1529]. one to echo the words, " There were giants in the earth in those ; But apparently the sixteenth century held an exactly corresponding view of its predecessors, for under the heading of " whyte elebore" we read, " In olde tyme it was commely used in medycyns as we use squamony. For the body of man was stronger than it is now, and myght better endure the vyolence of elebore, for man is weyker at this time of ; It is somewhat remarkable that both Christianity and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Arber, Agnes Robertson, 1879-1960. Cambridge, University press
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