Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026

The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.

BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934) Wikipedia

Publication Details

London: Culpepper House, 1928 CE.

A semi-popular account useful for its surveys of the earliest herbal literature: Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Greece, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopian (Abyssinian).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Browse Tags

Traditional & Indigenous
Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Thematic Classifications

BOTANY › Ethnobotany PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines › History of Materia Medica

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#12678
Permanent Link	https://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/14923
Author Bio Link	Wikipedia ↗
External URL	the-divine-origin-of-the-craft-of-the-herbalist

Geographic Context

Publication place: London