Lavender Oil (25 page)
Authors: Julia Lawless
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Introduction
1
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Extract from ‘L’histoire de la Jouvencelle, Lieutenante des Oiseaux’, a story from
Mille et une Nuits
(A Thousand and One Nights) cited in C. Meunier,
Lavandes et Lavandins
(Paris: Edisud, 1985), p. 5 transl. by S. Alcock.
2
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C. Isherwood,
A Bunch of Sweet Lavender
(Hitchin, Paternoster and Hales, brochure on the lavender industry [copy in Miss Lewis’ private lavender museum in 1977]).
1
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S. Festing,
The Story of Lavender
(London Borough of Sutton Libraries and Arts Services, 1982), p. 31.
2
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Mitcham News
, 20th July 1934.
3
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From a poem by M. E. Davies in
Hitchin Grammar School Magazine
c.1960, cited in Festing,
Story of Lavender
, p. 39.
4
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A. K. Singh, S. Ashok and O. P. Virmani, ‘Cultivation of Lavender for its Oil – A Review’,
Current Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
5.1 (1983), p. 54.
1
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The Greek Herbal
(ed. R. T. Gunther; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1937).
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Natural Perfume Materials
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J. Gerarde, cited in R. Tisserand,
The Art of Aromatherapy
(C. W. Daniel, 1979), p. 246.
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(W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1952), p. 210.
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W. Salmon, cited in Festing,
Story of Lavender
, p. 28.
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(Penguin, 1982), p. 472.
2
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Dr J. Valnet,
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R. M. Gattefossé,
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(C. W. Daniel, 1993), p. 106.
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International Journal of Aromatherapy
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A. Y. Leung,
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International Journal of Aromatherapy
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Z. Naturforsch C
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R. Lewis,
Natural Therapies Database
, Aromatherapy Vol. I, printed by R. Harris, p. 13.
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A. Woolfson and D. Hewitt, ‘Intensive Aromacare’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
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2
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Cited in Festing,
Story of Lavender
, p. 77.
1
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J. Lawless,
Aromatherapy and the Mind
(Thorsons, 1994), p. 77.
2
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Cited in Tisserand,
Art of Aromatherapy
, p. 100.
3
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P. Holmes, ‘Lavender Oil – A Study in Contradictions’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
4.2, 1992.
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Lawless,
Aromatherapy and the Mind
, p. 77.
3
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Lawless,
Aromatherapy and the Mind
, p. 80.
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S. Macnish, ‘The Soothing Touch’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
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5
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D. Falt, ‘Asthma’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
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Gattefossé, ‘Dr Marchand’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 90.
7
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M. Dambach-Sinclair, ‘Miraculous Healing’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.4 (1991), p. 32.
8
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Gattefossé, ‘Dr Marchand’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 90.
9
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Dr Ann Coxon, Consultant Physician and Neurologist, from ‘Prescribing Aromatherapy’,
Aromatherapy Quarterly
31 (Winter 1991), p. 9.
10
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Grieve,
Modern Herbal
, p. 472.
11
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Dr T. Betts, ‘Sniffing the Breeze’,
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40 (1994), p. 22.
12
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Lavendes
, p. 198.
13
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P. Allardice, Lavender (Robert Hale, 1991), p. 57.
14
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‘Progress in Essential Oils: Lavender Oil’,
Perfumer & Flavorist
18 (Jan./Feb. 1993), p. 58.
15
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P. Davis,
Aromatherapy – an A–Z
(C. W. Daniel, 1988), p. 166.
16
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Davis, A–Z, p. 173.
17
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Holmes, ‘Study in Contradictions’, p. 22.
18
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Valnet,
Practice of Aromatherapy
, p. 148.
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A. Ascham,
The Little Herball
(1525).
20
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Davis, A–Z, p. 200.
21
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C. Cunningham, ‘Whiplash’,
International Journal of Aromatherapy
3.1 (1991), p. 24.
22
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J. Basnyet, from a lecture given to midwives entitled ‘Aromatherapy in Ante- and Postnatal Care’,
Aromatherapy Times
18 (Winter 1992), p. 11.
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A. Dale,
Journal of Advanced Nursing
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24
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25
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26
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Art of Aromatherapy
, p. 98.
27
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Coxon, ‘Prescribing Aromatherapy’, p. 9.
28
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Gattefossé, ‘Dr Meurisse’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 94.
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Gattefossé, ‘Dr Marchand’s Observations’, in
idem, Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy
, p. 90.
1
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Aromatherapy Times
18 (Winter 1992).
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Aromatherapy Quarterly
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British Journal of Phytotherapy
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(BHMA, 1983).
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(Winter 1982).