The Apothecaries' Garden: A History Of The Chelsea Physic Garden

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Collect fruit early to catch them before the wasps, and compost any you can’t use or add them to a wormery. Chelsea Physic Garden’s plant collection is the only botanic garden collection focused entirely on medicinal, herbal and useful plants. Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (1737–39) was illustrated partly from specimens taken from the Chelsea Physic Garden.Big Pharma “is” modern medicine, a system designed by greedy oil tycoon Rockefeller as another outlet to sell his oil.

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Amongst the notable people who qualified in medicine as a Licentiate of the Society (LSA) were the poet John Keats (1816), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1865, thereby becoming the first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification) and Nobel Prize winner Sir Ronald Ross KCB FRS (1881). A south-facing berry patch can be decorative and delightful as well as packing a punch with vitamins for the table.Rosemary beneath the washing line gives sheets that extra fresh smell and I like to keep digestive-aiding mint in pots to pick for tea on my way to the studio. When the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London set up the Garden by the River Thames, it acted as a living medicine chest in which young apothecaries could learn to identify key medicinal plants.

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The main path, lined with small lawns edged with herbs, runs west for c 30m to where the statue of Sir Hans Sloane stands. Apothecary gardens are indeed alive and well and used, yes, as in days of old, for the amazingly healing abilities of plants, not only as decorative landscaping.This will ensure you get good quality plants that are exactly what you want and protect the environment as they will have been sustainably sourced and grown. He left the Garden when he was recruited by the British-owned East India Company to commit an act of horticultural espionage. It looks like the man is bending over a model village until you see the brick he is laying at a dizzying height above the ground. The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines. The Garden was originally established by Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, as an outdoor classroom to train their apprentices.

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Today, we understand that the work of European Plant Hunters was dependent on the help and support of many skilled indigenous people. Jones, Roger (2006), ‘Apothecaries, physicians and surgeons’, The British Journal of General Practice, 56 (524), pp. Many were to supply clients who included the navy, army, the East India Company and the Crown Colonies.The London Parochial Charities relinquished the Garden in 1981 and the Chelsea Physic Garden Company was formed two years later, the administration of the Garden passing to a new body of trustees, the Management Council of the Chelsea Physic Garden Company.