Curious herbal physiks

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Source plates from A Curious Herbal: containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physick by Elizabeth Blackwell, London, 1737. Drawn, engraved, and hand-coloured by Blackwell to raise funds to free her husband from debtors’ prison; one of the earliest English herbals authored and illustrated by a woman.

Scanned by the Missouri Botanical Garden, hosted on the Internet Archive.