COMMENDATIONS OF GOOD'S FAMILY FLORA. 5 



From J. Barratt, M. D., Middletown, Ct. 



GOOD'S FAMILY FLORA. I have examined this cheap and excellent new work 

 by Mr. Good, and take pleasure in recommending it to students in Botany. 



J. BAKRATT. 



From the Eclectic Medical Journal, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



FAMILY FLORA. Among the various medical periodicals, there is none of greater 

 interest than the "Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica," emanating from the 

 pen of Peter P. Good, of Cambridge. Mass. 



I have perused this work with much satisfaction. It is confined (as its name im- 

 ports) to the subject of Medical Botany, and is designed for the use of both the 

 professional and non-professional reader. In neatness, style, and arrangement, a 

 more elegant and attractive botanical periodical is not to be found in the United 

 States. The engravings are of a superior character, and lend an unusual degree of 

 attraction and interest to its perusal. 



So far as the medical properties and therapeutic uses of the agents which it em- 

 braces are concerned, they are also of a reliable character. 



The " Family Flora" is well adapted to the use of the medical student and the phy- 

 sician who are desirous of acquiring a critical knowledge of Medical Botany. It is 

 likewise a highly instructive publication for the use of families, and none should be 

 without it. 



I trust the gentlemanly author will meet with that encouragement which his zeal, 

 industry, and indefatigable energies justly merit at the hands of a liberal profession, 

 as well as an enlightened public. 



L. E. JONES, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



From the New Jersey Medical Reporter, Burlington, N. J. 



GOOD'S FAMILY FLORA AND MATERIA MEDICA BOTAKICA, &c., &c. This 

 work is now in its fourth year, and though we have never had an opportunity be- 

 fore of presenting it to our readers, we do so now with pleasure. It is a work pub- 

 lished at Cambridge, Mass., and offers to the profession, in a cheap and convenient 

 form, an account of the botanical, chemical, and medical properties, as well%s the 

 natural history, of indigenous and other plants, that may at all times be made avail- 

 able to the medical practitioner, and particularly to the country physician, in the 

 treatment of disease. Each part contains twelve colored plates, and a mass of val- 

 uable information is condensed in a compact form, which ought to be within the 

 reach of every physician. The proprietor is his own engraver, printer, agent, and 

 editor, and we cheerfully urge upon our readers the claims of his valuable produc- 

 tion, and hope that the " FAMILY FLORA" may increase its circulation at least tenfold. 



Address (post paid) Peter P. Good, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass. 



From the Medical Journal, Ohio. 



GOOD'S FAMILY FLORA AND MATERIA MEDICA BOTANICA. We have care- 

 fully perused the Family Flora, which the author, Peter P. Good, Cambridge, Mass., 

 has had the kindness to forward to our address. This periodical is printed semi- 

 monthly, but distributed to subscribers quarterly ; twelve numbers being bound to- 

 gether in pamphlet form. 



It is devoted to the botanical analysis and medical properties of both indigenous 

 and foreign medical plants. 



Each number is embellished with one very superior drawing of some medical 

 plant, which tends greatly to beautify the work. 



For neatness and elegance of style, we know of no pamphlet which exceeds this. 



The drawings are colored, and true to the living plant, while the natural history, 

 botanical analysis, and chemical and medical properties, together with the adapta- 

 tion of the agent to the cure of many diseases, are very accurately and very syste- 

 matically presented. No similar production with which we are acquainted surpasses, 

 if, indeed, it equals this in the accuracy of its botanical descriptions ; the description 

 of the therapeutic virtues of many of the articles noticed possesses equal merit. 



The author appears to be familiar with many of the plants not in use as remedial 

 agents in the allopathic school of medicine, but which are in very common use 

 amongst the eclectic class of physicians. This speaks well for his liberality, and 

 clearly manifests a disposition to keep up with the improvements of the science. 



The work is interesting and instructive, and recommends itself to the notice of 

 every reformer in medicine. 



L. E. J. 



