Converging Influences in the History of Western Herbal Medicine & Practice – CONFERENCE

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Date / time: 16 October, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm

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The Medical Society of London


Converging Influences in the History of Western Herbal Medicine & Practice - CONFERENCE

 

15th Anniversary Conference of the Herbal History Research Network 

‘Converging Influences in the History of Western Herbal Medicine & Practice’ 

16 October 2024 | The Medical Society of London

Speakers and topics will include:

  • Materia Medica as Material Culture, Professor Mark Nesbitt, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Qinghao, the Glistening Green Herb (Artemisia annua L.) 2nd to the 20th century, Professor Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford
  • Cunning Folk and ‘Herbalists’ in the Nineteenth-Century Medical Marketplace, Drs Debora Moretti and Peter Jones, Alternative Healers’ Project, Universities of Hertfordshire and Nottingham
  • ESCOP: 35 Years of Herbal Cooperation across Europe, Simon Mills, Medical Herbalist & Author
  • Sweet and Sour Synergy: Oxymel as a Past and Present Medicine, Dr Erin Connelly, University of Warwick
  • The Hidden Botanical Collections at the Natural History Museum, John Hunnex, National History Museum

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