ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION. 
in presenting the Medical Botany of the late Dr. Woodville in its improved form, the 
publisher cannot omit the opportunity of returning his thanks to Dr. Jackson HOOKER 
and Mr. Spratt, for the pains bestowed upon the Supplemental Volume. To the latter 
gentleman, in particular, he feels the work is greatly indebted, from his kindly undertaking 
to have THE WHULE OF THE PLATES COLOURED UNDER HIS IMMEDIATE INSPECTION, 
FROM ORIGINAL SPECIMENS. ‘This had become necessary from the very slovenly man- 
ner in which the greater portion of the former edition had been done, some of the plates 
exhibiting colours very different to those described in the text. 
The work will now be found to contain FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL ‘THE 
PLANTS USED IN EnGLisa MEDIciNE, and itis hoped, that the present limited impression 
of two hundred copies will deserve the praise bestowed upon the edition of 1790:* « We 
feel a pleasure in saying that this book is finished with care, and in a neat and elegant 
manner. Among the plates, from the masterly hand of Mr. Sowerby, some represent 
plants of which no engraving had before been given; others of which engravings were 
only to be found in large and expensive works. The whole are, with very few exceptions, 
taken from fresh plants, or dried specimens. In giving an account of = medicinal pro- 
perties of the several articles, the author has followed tl d writers, 
and he has particularly availed himself of the works of the latest and tout intelligent 
travellers, in correcting numerous vague and erroneous opinions relative to the mode of 
procuring and preparing many curious foreign drugs.” Similar testimonies of its merit 
may be found in every contemporary journal ; but having been nearly half a century 
established in public favour, it would seem impertinent to quote more respecting a work 
which is “ of such authority with professional men, as to be almost as essential to them 
as the Pharmacopeia itself.” 
A few copies of the additional volume have been taken off separately, to accommodate 
the subscribers to the former editions, printed by the late Mr. William Phillips, from 
whose executors the copyright has passed into the hands of the present publisher. 
17, Henrietia Street, June 1, 1832. 
* Dririsu Critic, vol. vu, p. 55. 
