LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. 13 



NEW AND COxMPLETE MEDICAL BOTANY. • 



NOW READY. 



MEDICAL~BOTANY, 



OR, A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE MORK IMPORTANT PLANTS USED IN 



MEDICINE, AND OF THEIR PROPEHTIRS, UbES AND 



MODES OF ADMINIS! RATION. 



BY R. EGLESFELD GRIFFITH, M. D. &c. &c. 



In one large octavo volume. 



With about three hundred arid fifty Illustrations on Wood. 

 Specimens of the Cms are annexed, but not so well printed as in the work, nor on as good paper. 



This work is intended to supply a want long felt in this country, of some treatise present- 

 ing correct systematic descriptions of medicinal plants, accompanied by represeniaiions of 

 the most important of them, and furnished at a price so moderate as to render it generally 

 accessible and useful. In the arrangement, the author has treated more fully of those 

 plants which are known to be of the greatest importance; and more especially of such as 

 are of native origin ; while others, rarely used, are briefly noticed, or mentioned only by 

 name. In all cases, the technical descriptions are drawn up in accordance with the existing 

 state of botanical knowledge, and in order that these may be fully appreciated, even by those 

 not proficients in the science, an Introduction has been prepared, containing a concise view 

 of Vegetable Physiology, and the Anatomy and Chemistry of Plants. Besides this, a very 

 copious Glossaiit of botanical terms has been appended, together with a most complete 

 Index, giving not only the scientific but also the common names of the species noticed in 

 it. It will thus be seen that the work presents a view not only of the properties and medical 

 virtues of the various species of the vegetable world, but also of their organization, compo- 

 sition and classification. 



To the student, who is really anxious to study Botany for those great purposes which ren- 

 der it so necessary for the advancement of Medical Science, and who has been obliged to 

 rest satisfied with such imperfect knowledge as can be obtained from the ditferent treatises 

 on the Materia Medica, the present work will be of great utility as a text-book and guide in 

 his researches, as it presents in a condensed form, all that is at present known respecting 

 those vegetable substances which are employed to alleviate suffering and to minister to the 

 wants of man. It will also be found extremely convenient to practitioners through the 

 country, who are anxious to obtain a knowledge of the medicinal plants occurring in their 

 vicinity, and who are unwilling to procure the scarce and high-priced works which are at 

 present the only ones accessiblg on this important branch of medical knowledge. 



Great care has been taken to render the mechanical execution satisfactory. 



NOW PREPARING, 



AND TO BE READY AT AN EARLY DAY, 



AN ANALYTICAL C.01PE.ND OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF 



peADiiGAL mmmi, %mmm, anatomy, 



MIDWIFERY, DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 



•Jflaiiriu Jflcdim and Therapeutics^ i^lviaiologg^ 



BV JOH.X NEILL, M D, 



Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University oi" Pennsylvania, and 

 F . G U R N E V SMITH, M . D . , 



Lecturer on Physiology in tlie Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction. 



To make one large royal Duodecimo volume, with numerous Illustrations on Wood. 



It is the intention of the publishers to page this work in such a way, that it can be done up in 

 separate divisions, and in paper to go by mail; no one division will cost over .50 cents, thus pre- 

 senting separate MANUALS on the various branches of medicine, and at a very low price. 



NEARLY READY. 



BURROWS ON DISORDERS OF CEREBRAL CIRCULATION, 



AND ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AFFECTIONS OF THE BRAIN AND 



DISEASES OF THE HEART. 



In one neat octavo volume, with six colored plates. 



