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The Botanic physician: Being a compendium of the practice of physic, upon botanical principles, containing all the principal branches necessary to the study of medicine, as anatomy; physiology; surgery; causes, symptoms and cure of diseases; midwifery; materia medica; pharmacy, botany, &c. Together with a great variety of useful recipes.
Publication Details
New York: Murphy & Bingham, 1830 CE.
“The first treatise to attempt a scientific synthesis of the botanic practice....The first significant attempt to synthesize and systematize the prevailing botanic practice and plant materia medica” (Berman & Flannery, America's botanico-medical movements (2001) 46-49, 72, 73)
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #12481 |
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Geographic Context
Publication place: New York