Physic garden

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The Chelsea Physic Garden, founded in London in 1673 as the "Garden of the Society of Apothecaries" and originally situated at Westminster.[1] The plants at Westminster were moved to Chelsea in 1676.[2]
Great Gate of the Physic Garden, Oxford
Petersfield Physic Garden

A physic garden is a type of herb garden with medicinal plants. Botanical gardens developed from them.

History

Modern botanical gardens were preceded by medieval physic gardens, often

medicinal plants called the herbularis or hortus medicus.[3] Pope Nicholas V set aside part of the Vatican grounds in 1447 for a garden of medicinal plants that were used to promote the teaching of botany, and this was a forerunner to the academic botanical gardens at Padua and Pisa established in the 1540s.[4] Certainly the founding of many early botanic gardens was instigated by members of the medical profession.[3]

The naturalist

Cambridge University with himself at its head. The 1597 Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes by herbalist John Gerard was said to be the catalogue raisonné of physic gardens, both public and private, which were instituted throughout Europe.[5] It listed 1,030 plants found in his physic garden at Holborn, and was the first such catalogue printed.[1]

The

the University of Edinburgh.[6]

Some of the earliest physic gardens included:[5]

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1001/jama.1915.02580020036016
    . Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  2. ^
    JSTOR 2990033
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  3. ^ a b Holmes, Edward M. (1906). "Horticulture in Relation to Medicine". Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. 31 (Public domain ed.): 42, 50, 54.
  4. ISBN 0-906223-73-3
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  5. ^ a b Sieveking, Albert Forbes (1899). Gardens Ancient and Modern: an epitome of the literature of the garden-art (Public domain ed.). J. M. Dent & co. pp. 351–. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  6. ^ Grant, Sir Alexander (1884). The story of the University of Edinburgh during its first three hundred years (Public domain ed.). Longmans, Green, and co. pp. 323–. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
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