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John Gerard , 1545-1612, English botanist and barber-surgeon. He compiled a catalog (1596) of the plants in his garden, the first of its kind to be published in England. He is best known for his Herball (1597), largely an adaptation of other works to which he added bits of folklore and some original observations.

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John Gerard (1545–1612), English herbalist. Gerard was qualified as a barber-surgeon in London and soon developed an interest in plants, particularly those with medicinal properties. He was curator of the physic garden of the College of Surgeons and published his Herball, containing over 1,800 woodcuts, in 1597. It became the best-known English herbal.

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Gerard, John (1545–1612), a herbalist, was author of the celebrated Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597), in a large measure adapted from the Pemptades of Rembert Dodoens.

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