
April : Thurs 11th
7.30pm
at St Swithun's Church, Woodbury
Entry by donation -
no need to book
Talk :
"Herbal medicine past and present : household medicines in Devon from the seventeenth century
onwards"
Anne Stobart
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
Image by Anne Stobart
https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/astobart/
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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