Gerard, JOHN, herbalist, was born at Nantwich, in Cheshire, in 1545. Settling in London, he kept Lord Burghley's gardens for over twenty years, practised as a barber-surgeon, becoming master of the company in 1608, and died in 1612. His famous Herball was published in 1597, mainly based upon the Stirpium Historice Pemptades (1583) by Rembert Dodoens. An enlarged edition of Gerard's Herball was issued by Thomas Johnson in 1633.
Gerard, JOHN
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 167
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