Doctors in the Medicinal Garden: Plants Named After Physicians
- ISBN-10
- 1860164919
- ISBN-13
- 9781860164910
- Category
- Plants
- Pages
- 165
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Royal College of Physicians
- Author
- Henry F. Oakeley
Description
Doctors in the Medicinal Garden explores the history, cultivation and uses of 60 plants found in the garden of the Royal College of Physicians, which are named after doctors and apothecaries
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