How wildflowers were made into herbal medicine in early modern Scotland
You can buy a translation of the 17th century book using the link below. Please don't try these recipes at home! My translation of Robert Sibbald's (1684) "The Wild Plants of Scotland and The Animals of Scotland" is now published and you can order a copy here if you are in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Plants-Scotland-Animals/dp/B08BWD2THF or here if you are in America: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Plants-Scotland-Animals/dp/B08BWD2THF If you enjoyed this video you can follow me on Twitter @LeafyHistory, and read more about my project on Twitter at the hashtag #WildflowersOfScotland. This video was skilfully edited and produced by Laurie Raye. You can follow them on Twitter @ohmwu. Special thanks to Phil Parkes, Reader in Conservation, Cardiff University, who not only good-naturedly got out the items for this video, but also patiently waited while this video was being filmed! You can follow Phil on Twitter @PhilParkes4. The Alice McCosh Trust provide grants for natural history and/or the environment. Their website is: http://www.thealicemccoshtrust.org.uk/ . The Wild Flower Society is a society for amateur botanists and wild plant lovers in the UK. You can follow them on Twitter @WildFlowerSoc. The Botanical Research Fund supports research in the UK and Ireland and is administrated by the Natural History Museum in London. The Turner Collection is housed in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University. You can learn more about it here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/pharmacy-pharmaceutical-sciences/about-us/heritage/the-turner-collection . For more about the possible historical antibiotic properties of cinquefoil see, among others: Watkins, F. Pendry, B. Sanchez-Medina, A. & Corcoran, O. (2012) 'Antimicrobial assays of three native British plants used in Anglo-Saxon medicine for wound healing formulations in 10th century England', Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 144(2): 408-15. For more on how skin whitening products in Early Modern Britain affected perception of race, class and purity, see: Poitevin, K. (2011) 'Inventing Whiteness: Cosmetics, Race and Women in Early Modern England', Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 11(1): 59-89.
You can buy a translation of the 17th century book using the link below. Please don't try these recipes at home! My translation of Robert Sibbald's (1684) "The Wild Plants of Scotland and The Animals of Scotland" is now published and you can order a copy here if you are in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Plants-Scotland-Animals/dp/B08BWD2THF or here if you are in America: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Plants-Scotland-Animals/dp/B08BWD2THF If you enjoyed this video you can follow me on Twitter @LeafyHistory, and read more about my project on Twitter at the hashtag #WildflowersOfScotland. This video was skilfully edited and produced by Laurie Raye. You can follow them on Twitter @ohmwu. Special thanks to Phil Parkes, Reader in Conservation, Cardiff University, who not only good-naturedly got out the items for this video, but also patiently waited while this video was being filmed! You can follow Phil on Twitter @PhilParkes4. The Alice McCosh Trust provide grants for natural history and/or the environment. Their website is: http://www.thealicemccoshtrust.org.uk/ . The Wild Flower Society is a society for amateur botanists and wild plant lovers in the UK. You can follow them on Twitter @WildFlowerSoc. The Botanical Research Fund supports research in the UK and Ireland and is administrated by the Natural History Museum in London. The Turner Collection is housed in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University. You can learn more about it here: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/pharmacy-pharmaceutical-sciences/about-us/heritage/the-turner-collection . For more about the possible historical antibiotic properties of cinquefoil see, among others: Watkins, F. Pendry, B. Sanchez-Medina, A. & Corcoran, O. (2012) 'Antimicrobial assays of three native British plants used in Anglo-Saxon medicine for wound healing formulations in 10th century England', Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 144(2): 408-15. For more on how skin whitening products in Early Modern Britain affected perception of race, class and purity, see: Poitevin, K. (2011) 'Inventing Whiteness: Cosmetics, Race and Women in Early Modern England', Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 11(1): 59-89.