Comments on: Mystery Plant in the Apothecaries’ Garden https://bshm.org.uk/mystery-plant-2/ Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: bshmchris https://bshm.org.uk/mystery-plant-2/#comment-34 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:42:08 +0000 http://bshm.org.uk/?p=2068#comment-34 ​
Answer to Mystery Plant

In 1817 James Parkinson a surgeon apothecary from Shoreditch published ‘An Essay on the Shaking Palsy’ .
Charcot later suggested the name Parkinson’s Disease.

The plant is the broad bean (Vicia faba)
In 1913 Guggenheim identified an antiparkinsonian agent (levadopa) in seedlings , pods and beans.

Chris Derrett

]]> By: bshmchris https://bshm.org.uk/mystery-plant-2/#comment-33 Tue, 30 May 2017 10:27:10 +0000 http://bshm.org.uk/?p=2068#comment-33 The plant is not basil but it is a vegetable
CD

]]> By: Martyn Thomas https://bshm.org.uk/mystery-plant-2/#comment-32 Tue, 30 May 2017 06:47:11 +0000 http://bshm.org.uk/?p=2068#comment-32 I think that the East London apothecary is James Parkinson who wrote ‘An essay on the shaking palsy’ in 1817. Not sure what the plant is but wonder if it might be basil.

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