AMYRIS GILEADENSIS A stunning original copper plate antique print 'Published as the Art Directs by W Woodville Jan 1790' Plate 192 taken from 'Medical Botany containing Systematic and General Descriptions with Plates of all the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the Materia Medica as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh' With Original full hand colouring. Overall size 17cm x 23cm with large borders, perfect for mounting and framing. Image size approx 14cm x 18cm. Pristine condition and very fresh appearance. William Woodville was born at Cockermouth in 1752. He went to the University of Edinburgh, where he attended William Cullen's classes before graduating MD in 1775. Woodville returned to Cumberland and began to practise medicine at Papcastle before he was forced to move to North Wales after accidentally shooting a man who was creating a disturbance in his (presumably prized) garden. In 1782 Woodville settledin London, became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London and physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital. He was a staunch advocate of inoculation and published populist pro-inoculation phlets. Later, convinced by Edward Jenner's work, he played an important role in establishing vaccination Medical Botany, Woodville's great catalogue of medicinal plants, was published in serial parts between 1790 and 1794. The work contains nearly 300 illustrations of the plants featured in the pharmacopoeias published by the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The accompanying text gives clear plant descriptions and details the plants' medicinal qualities. A fourth supplementary volume contains plants not included in the college pharmacopoeias. The beautiful illustrations in the book were nearly all drawn from living plants or herbarium specimens by James Sowerby, wh
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