American medicinal plants : an illustrated and descriptive guide to plants indigenous to and naturalized in the United States which are used in medicine / Charles F. Millspaugh ; with a new table of revised classification and nomenclature by E. S. Harrar. James B. Duke Emeritus Professor Wood Science, Duke University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millspaugh, Charles Frederick, 1854-1923.

Contributor:

Harrar, Ellwood S. (Ellwood Scott)

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicinal plants--United States.

Medicinal plants.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

United States.

Materia medica, Vegetable--United States.

Plants, Medicinal.

Medical Subjects:

Plants, Medicinal.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 806 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Medicinal plants

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [1974]

Summary:

Presents illustrated profiles of 180 American wild plants of medicinal value, arranged in botanical order, describing their uses and properties.

Contents:

Natural arrangement of the plants

Additions and corrections

Table of revised classification and nomenclature.

Notes:

"This Dover edition, first published in 1974, is a one-volume unabridged republication of the work as published by John C. Yorston & Company, Philadelphia, in two volumes in 1892 under the title 'Medicinal Plants'."--T.p. verso.

"In preparing this inexpensive reprint edition, it has, of course, been necessary to modify somewhat the handsome but extremely costly format of the original work. The most drastic alteration is perhaps the conversion of all of the full-page colored plates to black-and-white halftones. However, thanks to the present high quality of offset lithographic photography, the minute but essential detail in the plates has been preserved."--Publisher's Note to the Dover Edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 755-757) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0486230341

9780486230344

OCLC:

1091560

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