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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

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

Publication Details

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847 CE.

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.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#8545
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/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