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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847.

The author intended to update and correct the earlier works on American materia medica by Barton, Bigelow and Rafinesque, and to make this information available at a reasonable price. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

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Entry Number#8545
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/10722
Author Bio Linkplants.jstor.org ↗
External URLmedical-botany-or-descriptions-of-the-more-important-plants-used-in-medicine-with-their-history-properties-and-mode-of-administration

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia