Medical Botany: Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates of All the Medicinal Plants, Comprehended in the Catalogues of the Materia Medica, as Published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburg, and Dublin, Volume 1Bohn, 1832 - Botany First compiled by William Woodville, a Quaker physician and botanist, and issued in parts from 1790 to 1795, Medical Botany remained the standard illustrated book of plants of the British pharmacopoeia until the late 1870s. |
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