List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1
A framework for the history of herbal medicine
2.1
Diagram showing the four humours and associated concepts
2.2
Sitz baths at the site of an Asclepion at Gortys, Peloponnese, Greece
2.3
Squirting cucumber (
Ecballium elaterium
)
3.1
Original drawing of a nettle plant (
Urtica
spp.)
3.2
Original drawing of a plantain plant (
Plantago
spp.)
4.1
Illustration of a woman with foetus in utero: ‘Dissection to expose child in the womb’
4.2
Lying-in room showing attendant, child being bathed and a midwife drinking her beer
6.1
The use of cumin (
Cuminum cyminum
) to pay rents in medieval Oxfordshire
6.2
Cumin (
Cuminum cyminum
)
8.1
Bronze mortar dated 1607, made in England
8.2
Illustration of a woman using a still
12.1
Portrait of John Parkinson
12.2
Crowne Imperiall (
Fritillaria imperialis
)
13.1
Map of medieval South-east Scotland
13.2
Reconstruction of the drain blocked with ‘medical waste’ at Soutra
Tables
10.1
Items in
De materia medica
10.2
Places given in
De materia medica
13.1
Seed count of sample (Soutra Aisle (SA) 735; 1996/7)
13.2
Medieval names for St John’s wort and valerian according to the
Sinonomiae