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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1750–1759

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1759 CE–1775 CE

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The vegetable system. Or, the internal structure and the life of plants; their parts, and nourishment explained; their classes, orders, genera, and species, ascertained, and described; in a method altogether new: Comprehending an artificial index and a natural system. With figures of all plants designed and engraved by the author. The whole from nature only. 26 vols.

HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)
HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)

This very extensive work consisting of 26 vols. in folio, with a total of 1548 plates, was the first comprehensive vernacular presentation of botany adopting Linnean generic names and binary nomenclature. It describes…