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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. Vol. II / by Jacob Bigelow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany, Medical--United States.
- Botany, Medical.
- Herbs--Therapeutic use.
- Herbs.
- Medicinal plants--United States.
- Medicinal plants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xvi, 199 pages)) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Cummings and Hilliard, 1818.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: Log.2142.O
- In 1815 Bigelow was appointed lecturer in materia medica and botany at Harvard. Bigelow was one of the committee of five that compiled the first Pharmacopeia of the United States (1820). The sixty plates that illustrate the text were engraved after Bigelow's original coloured drawings.
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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