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April : Thurs 11th
7.30pm
at St Swithun's Church, Woodbury
Entry by donation -
no need to book
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Talk :
"Herbal medicine past and present : household medicines in Devon from the seventeenth century
onwards"
Anne Stobart
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Understanding and utilising native plants as sources of medicine goes back
to prehistoric times, long before botany was established as a subject of study.
Even the famous parson-naturalist Gilbert White learned part of his plant lore
from a local healing-woman.
Our very own local healing-woman Anne Stobart opens our series of talks.
She is a medical herbalist, Hon. Fellow of Exeter University, author of Household Medicine in seventeenth-Century England (2016), and founder of Holt Wood Herbs in N Devon and of the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust
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Image by Anne Stobart
https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/astobart/
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This talk will be followed up by a wildflower walk 'discovering nature's medicine chest', guided by medical herbalist Melanie Shaw, on Sunday 23 June, 2.000-5.00pm - location and full details to follow.
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