Dutch poley, in the old Herbalscalled puliol royal; its Latin name being derived from its supposed efficacy in destroying fleas (pulices).
Spelt in the oldherbals Pasnep and Pastnip, from Lat.
But attached as he is to his profession, archæology is for ever striving with medicine for the first place in his affections, and his knowledge ofherbals and the literature of alchemy is immense.
Do all book-collecting doctors garner only herbals and early medical works?
Herbals are doubtless collected by many who are not possessed of medical knowledge, and a number of them treat more of simples and housewifery than leechcraft, which is probably one reason of their attraction for the non-medical collector.
In the old herbals and pomologies much is made of the value of cherries for medicinal purposes.
Students of the English herbals say that Gerarde translated, copied and adapted from Matthiolus, whose book we have noted, but more particularly from Dodoens who in 1554 published in Antwerp A History of Plants.
It is impossible to make an attentive examination of the old Herbals without being astonished at the extraordinary number and nature of the ills which their authors professed to cure by means of plants and simples.
Outside the herbals there is more old English herb lore to be found in Shakespeare than in any other writer.
These still-room books, which are a modest branch of literature in themselves, are more nearly akin to herbals than to cookery books, with which they are popularly associated.
The later seventeenth-century herbals are marked by a return to the belief in the influence upon herbs of the heavenly bodies, but it is a travesty rather than a reflection of the ancient astrological lore.
For information respecting incunabula herbals in American libraries I am indebted to Dr.
Designed to promote Botanical Knowledge, prevent Mistakes in the Use of Simples in compounding and preparing Medicines, to illustrate, and render suchHerbals as want the Just Representations in their proper Figures and Colour more useful.
In the old Saxon herbals the belief in the efficacy of herbs used as amulets is a marked feature, and even in Gerard's Herbal much of this old belief survives.
The chapter initials are from old wood-cut initials in the English Herbals of Gerarde, Parkinson, and Cole.
Old herbals say the Sweet-williams are "worthy the Respect of the Greatest Ladies who are Lovers of Flowers.
We have already quoted Harrison’s description of his Elizabethan garden, but it is of course in the old English Herbals that we find the fullest account of what was grown, whether for beauty or for use.
Tristram cast about for a few seconds, and began again in dog-Latin, a tongue which he had acquired in order to read the herbals to Captain Barker on winter evenings.
Herbals and collections of fruits and flowers--Samples in buds, flowers and fruits of plants intended for herbals should be collected when the plant is small, and generally when it is of a size to be kept in a leaf of paper by folding.
Travellers can, sometimes, find herbals already collected; it would be useful to procure them, especially if they have but a short time to stay or even a single season, after assuring themselves that these herbals are made with care.
The most of the other criptogamous plants, such as the fern, mosses, lichens, mushrooms large and small, are prepared in herbals as other vegetables.
Herbals and fruits, when perfectly dry, should be put in tin, or, at least, well painted boxes so as to be beyond the reach of mice or insects.
Old herbalspronounced it "cephalic, ophthalmic, and good for a weak memory.
As we shall see in the following chapter, the earliest printed herbals adhered closely to the classical tradition.
The existing copies of this and other old herbals often have the figures painted, generally in a distressingly crude and heavy fashion.
In manuscript form, herbals have existed from very early times, but, in the present book, those prior to the invention of printing have been scarcely touched upon.
For this reason it may be mentioned here, although manuscript herbals do not, strictly, come within our province.
The duchess may perhaps have inherited a taste for herbals from her father, for the British Museum also possesses a copy of Verard's translation of the 'Ortus Sanitatis,' which is known to have been purchased by him.
In the present chapter no attempt has been made to discuss the illustrations of those herbals (e.
There are a number of other manuscript herbals in existence, illustrated with interesting figures.
The old herbals and books of travels abound in curious examples of the quaint beliefs of our forefathers, while their treatises on natural history are a still richer storehouse.
In the same place he issued Dutch and Latin Herbals with cuts copied from Schoeffer's Mainz Herbarius, and this completes the story of his illustrated ventures.
They will be found in herbals (but these were mainly foreign blocks), military works, and all books for which diagrams were needed.
For centuries the illustrations to herbals and bestiaries had been copied from hand to hand, continuing a tradition that had its rise with Greek artists of the first century B.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herbals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
