Curso de botanica medica
Dura
Botany, Medical
Etchings (prints)
This is a second edition of Durañona’s basic textbook for the study of medicinal plants and their uses.
DuraƱona, Lucio
La Ciencias
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Spanish
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DigID0002863
Vegetable materia medica of the United States
Copper engravings (visual works)
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Materia medica
Botany, Medical
Baptisia
William P. C. Barton's <i>Vegetable materia medica of the United States</i>, along with Jacob Bigelow's contemporary <i>American medical botany</i>, are the first two American botanical publications with colored illustrations. Barton's contains hand-colored copperplate engravings.
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
M. Carey & Son
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American medical botany
Etchings (prints)
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Materia medica
Botany, Medical
Ginseng
In addition to being a detailed examination of plants native to the United States with their medicinal uses, <em>American medical botany</em> is the first publication in this country to employ a color printing process for its plates, using an innovative etched stone process. Jacob Bigelow, Harvard's professor of materia medica, hoped to decrease reliance on foreign imported medicinal substances by substitution of domestic compounds: <em>"Several departments of the Materia Medica may be amply supplied from our own forests and meadows, although there are others, for which we must as yet depend on foreign countries. We have yet to discover our anodynes and our emetics.... A great number of foreign drugs, such as gentian, columbo, chamomile, kino, catechu, cascarilla, canella, &c. for which we pay a large annual tax to other countries, might in all probability be superceded by the indigenous products of our own."</em> The plate displayed shows <em>panax quinquefolium</em> [ginseng].
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Cummings and Hilliard
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The complete herbalist, or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies
Title pages
Frontispieces (illustrations)
Brown, O. Phelps (Oliver Phelps)
Materia medica
Medicine, Eclectic
In addition to publishing this popular botanic medical text, O. Phelps Brown made and marketed proprietary medicines, such as the "Magic Assimilant" (boneset, chamomile blossoms, smartweed, vervain, and whiskey) for fits and indigestion. He also provided medical consultation by mail: <em>"I desire all invalids to explain in full the symptoms under which they have suffered, and to detail as nearly as they can, when and how the disease was contracted…. I make no charge for consultation, either in office, or by letter. Express and mail facilities are now so perfect that medicines can be daily, safely and cheaply transported from my office to the remotest localities."</em>
Brown, O. Phelps (Oliver Phelps)
Oliver Phelps Brown
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DigID0002550
The herball, or generall historie of plantes
Excerpts
Engravings (prints)
Gerard, John, 1545-1612
Materia medica
Botany, Medical
Herbals are the original foundation for botanical medicine. The somewhat erratic English botanist John Gerard here provides descriptions of over 1,500 plants, accompanied by detailed engravings, and then outlines the "vertues" or medicinal uses of each, with reference to Classical authorities, such as Galen and Dioscorides.
Gerard, John, 1545-1612
Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers
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DigID0002545
The American herbal, or materia medica
Excerpts
Herbals
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Materia medica
Botany, Medical
<i>"Promulgated for the purpose of spreading medical light and information in America,"</i> Samuel Stearns' herbal is the first to be printed in the United States and incorporates information from the traditions of American Indians.
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
David Carlisle
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DigID0002536
Materia medica Americana potissimum regni vegetabilis
Title pages
Schopf, Johann David, 1752-1800
Botany, Medical
Materia medica
This first account of American plants and their medicinal uses was, oddly enough, published in Germany. Johann David Schöpf was a military surgeon who came to the country during the Revolutionary War and later traveled through New York, Pennsylvania, as far west as Kentucky, and then south through the Carolinas to Florida.
Sch
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DigID0002535