GRIFFITH, R. Eglesfeld, M.D.

Medical Botany: Or Descriptions of the More Important Plants Used

Item #47405

GRIFFITH, R. Eglesfeld, M.D. 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. 704pp. Over 300 illus. Half title. Modern calf, raised bands, gilt morocco label. Early ink note on half title. Old tideline in first fifteen leaves. Scattered light foxing. Very good. CORDASCO 40-0561. Alex Berman & Michael A. Flannery, AMERICA'S BOTANICO-MEDICAL MOVEMENTS (New York, 2001), pp.42,60. A well-illustrated work by a "regular" physician. The bulk of MEDICAL BOTANY... is devoted to a vegetable materia medica, "arranged according to the natural orders" (p.viii). The book also includes an "Introduction on the Structure and Composition of Plants," a "copious" glossary, and a "Conspectus of the Natural Orders of Plants containing remedial substances" (p.viii).

Price: $275.00