Botanical illustration of a marsh mallow plant with green leaves, small pale flowers, and dissected flower and seed details on cream.

A round green seed-head rosette above the words GET WELL SOON in spaced olive capitals. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Marsh Mallow Get Well Soon

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A marsh mallow plant, drawn by Walther Otto Müller for Köhler's 1887 guide to healing plants, sits above a gentle Get Well Soon. The first marshmallows were made from this plant's root, cooked with sugar to soothe sore throats, and its Latin name comes from the Greek for to heal. For someone on the mend.

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GET WELL SOON

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From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / MARSH MALLOW / Althaea officinalis / The first marshmallows were made from the root of this plant, cooked with sugar to soothe sore throats. Its name Althaea comes from the Greek for to heal. / 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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