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Virtues and Pleasures of Herbs through History

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Figure 7. Tanacetum vulgare [Tanacetum vulgare Linnaeus, Asteraceae alt. Compositae], engraving by an unknown engraver after an original by James Sowerby (1757–1822) for William Woodville (1752–1805), Medical Botany: Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exotic, Comprehended in the Catalogues of the Materia Medica, as Published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh (London, printed and sold for the author by J. Phillips, 1790–1793, vol. 2, pl. 115), HI Library call no. DF5 W898M.