title: Nature's Remedies : Early History and Uses of Botanic Drugs as Revealed in the Legends and Anecdotes of Ancient Times
author: Joseph Ernest Meyer
description: Hardcover, green cloth, black lettering, chapter endnotes, 2 indexes, Meyer's trademark logo on pg 171, 86 b/w line illustrations in text, 288 plants shown in full color on 24 plates.; Illustrated by the author. Lists plants, roots, herbs, leaves, barks, flowers, seeds, etc, and their medicinal properties. A home medical guide, not a cookbook, not full of folklore nonsense, although there is one chapter of plantlore.
zlib_text: also by amy stewart
  
  From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
  
  The Earth Moved:
  
  On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
  
  Flower Confidential:
  
  The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
  
  Wicked Plants:
  
  The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities
  
  Wicked Bugs:
  
  The Louse that Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects
  
  
  
  
  
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  ##  contents
  
  [Aperitif](text00006.html#ape)
  
  [About the Recipes](text00007.html#rec)
  
  [ PART I ](text00008.html#pt1)
  
  We explore the twin alchemical processes of fermentation and distillation,
  from which wine, beer, and spirits issue forth.
  
  Proceeding in an Orderly Fashion through the Alphabet:  
  [The Classics, from Agave to Wheat](text00009.html#ch1)
  
  Then Moving onto a Sampling of More Obscure Sources of Alcohol from around the
  World:  
  [Strange Brews](text00010.html#ch2)
  
  [ PART II ](text00011.html#pt2)
  
  We then suffuse our creations w