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Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed : in three volumes

Authors

Woodville, William, 1752-1805.; Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.

Publication Date

1790

Collections

Teaching and Research

Publisher

London : Printed and sold for the author, by James Phillips

Summary

Plates by James Sowerby (cf. ESTC).

Originally issued in monthy parts (cf. Henrey).

Followed by: A supplement to medical botany, 1794, by the same author. Vol. 1: xiv, [2], 182, [2] p., 65 leaves of plates; v. 2: xii, 183-368, [2] p., 66-135 leaves of plates; v. 3: viii, 369-578, xii p., 136-210 leaves of plates.

ESTC (RLIN).

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction.

Bookplate on paste-down: "James Mackenziel." Gift to The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library presented by Mrs. Stewart R. Roberts on November 12, 1942.

HEALTH: Added as part of 2008 Rare Book Project. Quarter-bound book with leather and marble paper. Gold stamping on spine on dark brown title plate. Cream endpapers. Sprinkled fore edge. digitized.

HEALTH: Library has v. 2 only.

The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Publications Program

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Emory Libraries

License

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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