A CURIOUS HERBAL

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A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell is a significant 18th-century botanical book featuring 500 hand-colored engravings of medicinal plants, created to help her husband, a physi cian, who was imprisoned for debt. Published in installments starting in 1737, it includes detailed drawings by Blackwell herself, descriptions of the plants, and their uses in medicine, making it a valuable work of botany, illustration, and entrepreneurship. Show more