Botanical illustration of a ginger plant with tall green leaves, a yellow and pink flower, knobby roots and dissected flower parts on cream.

A small yellow and pink ginger flower above the words GET WELL SOON in green capitals. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Ginger Get Well Soon

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A ginger plant in full flower, roots and all, from Walther Otto Müller's drawings for Köhler's 1887 guide to healing plants, with a simple wish to get well soon. Ginger has been taken for colds and upset stomachs for more than two thousand years, which makes it a fitting plant for a recovery. For someone on the mend.

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Inside, it says

GET WELL SOON

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / GINGER / Zingiber officinale / The part we eat is a stem that creeps sideways underground. Ginger has been taken for colds and upset stomachs for more than two thousand years, in China, India and beyond. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1887 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen.

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