American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing Their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, with Coloured Engravings, Volume 1, Part 1Cummings and Hilliard; [Cambridge] University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817 - Botany - 120 pages |
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