Word: herbals
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Englishwoman, Mrs. M. Grieve, has made herself her country's great grower of herbs and other simples. Another woman, Mrs. Carl Frederick Leyel, has made herself Britain's greatest advocate of herbal medicine. Last week the two published the U. S. edition of their two-volume Modern Herbal* It is compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer...
...revival of herbalism, of which the Modern Herbal is expensive evident been due partly to accident, par propaganda. During the War there was insistent demand for pharmaceutical plants. Mrs. Grieve had been growing some in her Buckinghamshire gardens. She enlarged the plots, trained pupils drying of herbs and their preparation market. Mrs. Leyel, who would have studied medicine if her first lesson in dissection had not repelled her, had long experimented with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London...
From herbs as medicines Mrs. Leyel has developed a goodly business, wich Modern Herbal may extend from England to the U. S. In a catalog fortified with testimonials she advertises, for example...