The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7218 p473
5 October 2002

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Materia medica donated to Kew

A box containing hundreds of dried plant samples used in the 1920s to teach pharmacists and doctors how to prepare herbal remedies has been donated to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London. The collection, displayed here by Robin Smith, of the Centre for Economic Botany at Kew, was put together by Southall Bros & Barclay, a Birmingham-based pharmacy, and originally belonged to a Mr S. Newman. The box has been donated by Mark Arstall, the son of Eddie Arstall, a pharmacist who qualified in 1944.