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The family flora and materia medica botanica : containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants / by Peter P. Good.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Good, Peter P. (Peter Peyto), 1789?-1875, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany, Medical.
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by the author, 1845.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 11796.O
- People with more pretensions - and dollars - could purchase full-length herbals embellished with engraved illustrations individually coloured by hand, which were not only beautiful but "true to life."
- 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.
- The complete work was issued serially in 96 parts. The first completed edition was issued at New York by the author in 1845 as 'The family flora and materia medica botanica', and also as 'A materia medica botanica'.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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