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A treasury of American Indian herbs; their lore and their use for food, drugs, and medicine. / Virginia Scully.
LIBRA - Rare E98.B7 S3 1970 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scully, Virginia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Ethnobotany--West (U.S.).
- Indians of North America.
- Ethnobotany--West (U.S.).
- Ethnobotany.
- Indians of North America--Ethnobotany.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1970]
- Contents:
- Part One. Food and Drink
- Part Two. Maladies and Medicine.
- Notes:
- "The illustrations in this book are from two sources: Gerard's 'Herball' (1636) and Dr. W. Beach's 'The American Practice Condensed' (1849)."
- This material "is limited to the Indians of the Rocky Mountain region".
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-302) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy is "Third Printing, August, 1971".
- OCLC:
- 129275
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