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Plant-stories, Poisons and Potions: A peek into the dark herbal corners of Apothecaries' shelves!

As Halloween draws near herbal storyteller, Amanda Edmiston, leads us into a world where history, fact and fairy-tale align in this evening session for a grown-up audience.

Inspired by the George Marshall Medical Museum's collection and connecting to her research into the stories and medical use of the plants pictured in Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (the first herbal to be published by a woman in 1737), Amanda takes us on a journey to explore the traditional uses of some of the more dangerous plants in the materia medica and shares some of the strange stories behind them.

Register via Eventbrite here.

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The George Marshall Medical Museum is part of a Registered Charity, and in order to support Amanda in her practice, there is a suggested donation of £4/household. With cost in mind, we wish to be as accessible as possible within our capabilities. As such, please consider paying what you can afford, or come for free if you cannot afford a donation.

Donate via Amanda's Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/amandaedmiston

Please register to receive your link to the online event, which will take place on Zoom. Tickets are available until 5pm on the day of the event. If you have not received your link by 6pm on Thursday 29 October, please email louise.price10@nhs.net.

We aim to provide a form of closed captioning for this zoom talk.