Histoire de la phytomédecine

Trade, Discovery and Influences in the History of Herbal Medicine

The Herbal History Research Network is happy to announce its next seminar:

Wednesday 14 October, 2015  10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.

Venue: Jenner Room, Gibbs Building, The Wellcome Library,  215 Euston Rd. London NW1 2BE Programme and full details from nicky@nickywesson.com. (Early bird discount; advanced registration required)

Speakers:

Dr. Laurence Totelin: What will the neighbours say? Middle-distance drug trade in the ancient world 

Dr. Debby Banham: The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmacological horizons in eleventh century England 

Dr. Clare Griffin: Exchanging Herbs:The trade in medicinal plants in early modern Europe 

Dr. Anne Stobart: Medicinal herbal consumption in the early modern household 

Dr. Richard Aspin: New Drugs, New Medicines, 17th-19th centuries - Evidence from the Wellcome's collections 

Dr. Mark Nesbitt: Trade in Materia Medica: Evidence from the Kew Collection, 1840-1980