1. David J. Owen, MLS,Ph.D. Kalmanovitz Library and CKM, UCSF
And Here’s To You, Mrs. Grieve: Thyme to Revisit Those Old Herbal Books
David J. Owen, MLS,Ph.D.
Kalmanovitz Library and CKM, UCSF
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2. Herbal Renaissance in US
Resurgence of interest in 1970s
Entered the mainstream in 1990s
Problem of finding information
Revisiting classic herbal texts
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3. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
Herbals
A book containing the names and descriptions of herbs, or of plants in general, with their properties and virtues; a treatise on plants
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4. Prospecting for Drugs in Old Texts
Dioscorides wrote about nettle (Urtica dioica)
Used in Middle Ages as a diuretic
Rediscovered in 1990s
Investigated by German scientists
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5. Greco-Roman and Medieval
Dioscorides
Gerard’s Herbal
Culpepper
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6. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
Dioscorides
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7. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
Gerard’s Herbal
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8. Culpepper:The English Physician (1652)
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9. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
Mrs. Maud Grieve
F.R.H.S.
A Modern Herbal (1936)
First “modern” herbal in
hundred years
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10. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
A Modern Herbal
1936
Medicinal and culinary herbs
Traditional herbalism
One of the top selling books on herbal harvesting and usage
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11. 19th Century American Medical Movements and Botanicals
Eclecticism
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12. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
Fyfe’s Materia Medica
The Essentials of Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics by John William Fyfe, M.D.
(Eclectic Manual #6, 1903)
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13. Cubreth’s Material Medica and Pharmacology
A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, by David M.R. Culbreth, Ph.G., M.D. (7th edition, 1927)
All official drug plants in the United States Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary up to 1927
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14. King's American Dispensatory
by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D.,
and John Uri Lloyd, Phr. M., Ph. D.,
1898
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15. The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy
Finley Ellingwood, M.D
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16. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
Online
History of Herbals
SouthWest School of Botanical Medicine
Henrietta’s Herbal Web Page
Mrs. Grieve’s Modern Herbal
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17. David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004
“Between tradition and modernity there is a bridge. When they are mutually isolated, tradition stagnates and modernity vaporizes; when in conjunction, modernity breathes life into tradition, while the later replies with depth and gravity.”
Octavio Paz, Nobel Lecture, 1990
David J. Owen, UCSF, January 2004