Facets

1916

#8154

Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.

A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…

1916

#9346

Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919

#9287

Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.

Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…

1923

#9294

Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.

Digital facsimile from spiritoftherivers.wikispaces.com at this link.

1924 –1929

#7097

A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928

#9271

Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928

#9289

Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.

1932

#9283

The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.

1932

#9295

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.

Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.

1933

#9348

Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1936

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

1939

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

1940

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

1941

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1944

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1956

#7238

Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.

Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.

1957

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1961

#11420

America's pre-pharmacopeial literature.

1962

#7417

Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.

1963

#7868

Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.

Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …

1969

#8415

A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;

Digital facsimile from www.fs.fed.us at this link.

1972

#9918

The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.

Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.

1973

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1975

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1982

#9775

Dark paradise: Opiate addiction in America before 1940.

Enlarged edition retitled: Dark paradise: A history of opiate addiction in America (2002).

1982

#11414

Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.

Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.

1986

#9464

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

1988

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1992

#9568

The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.

1995

#9767

The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.

1996

#9787

Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.

1997

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1999

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

2001

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

2001

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …

2001

#10115

America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.

2002

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

2004

#8044

Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.

2004

#9766

Civil War pharmacy: A history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.

2004

#9799

American household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.

2005

#8045

Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.

2011

#7805

Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.

2013

#12102

Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.

2015

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

2016

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

2017

#8517

Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…