Gilbert Knowles was a Roman Catholic priest and botanist. He published the ‘Materia medica botanica’ in 1723, which described the medicinal uses of four hundred plants. The book was dedicated to Dr Richard Mead.
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M. G. Watkins, ‘Knowles, Gilbert (1667-1734)’, rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15767 [accessed 8 Aug 2013]).
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