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A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.

Lovedale, South Africa: Lovedale Mission Press, 1885.

The first edition was a pamphlet of 23 pp. Smith issued a much-expanded second edition with 163 pp., also at Lovedale in 1888, and a further expanded third edition with 262 pp. (Cape Town, 1895). Digital facsimile of the 1888 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link, of the 1895 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#9500
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/11685
Author Bio LinkS2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science ↗
External URLa-contribution-to-south-african-materia-medica-chiefly-from-plants-in-use-among-the-natives

Geographic Context

Publication place: Lovedale, South Africa

Mentioned in annotation: Cape Town