Re: VMS -- Doctrine of Signatures

[Nick Pelling <njmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

> > http://www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com/signs.htm
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Doctrine of Signatures 
> was rather more literalistic than as presented in this article: it's more 
> about Culpeper's herbal astrology, and that was basically a populist 
> version of the "London Pharmacopoeia" (first edition 1616, IIRC).

Please let me apologise for my rather unclear prose - what I was trying to 
say was that the article linked to is more about Culpeper's (C17) herbal 
astrology than the Doctrine of Signatures, which was (AIUI) all to do with 
explicit parallels between the appearance of plants and the ways that 
illnesses manifest themselves.

Please let me also apologise for double-posting - I've been having some 
tech difficulties with changing domain hosting etc, sorry: hopefully 
they'll all go away RSN. :-|

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling....