



LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIOIvS. 13 



NEW AND COMPLETE MEDICAL BOTANY. 



NOW BEADY. 



BOTANY, 



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



MEDICINE, AND OF THEIR PROPERTIES, USES AND 



MODES OF ADMINISTRATION. 



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



In one large octavo volume. 



With about three hundred and fifty Illustrations on Wood. 

 Specimens of the Cuts 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 rej resentaiions 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 cas : es,the technical descriptions are drawn up in accordance wilh 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 Glossary of botanical terms has been appended, together with a most complete 

 hu>Ex, 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 different treatises 

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

 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 thro »&^ f he 

 cou 

 vicinity 



present the only , . r 



Great care has been taken to render the mechanical execution satisfactory 



NOW PREPARING, 



AND TO BE READY BY AUGUST NEXT, 



AN ANALYTICAL COMPEL OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF 



PRACTICAL MEDICINE, SURGERY, ANATOMY 



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MIDWIFERY, DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN 



Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Physiology, 



© EI IS EO S 5? El Y AS?B I? 151 A I2M A O *2". 



BY JOHN NEILL, M. D., 



Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and 



F. GURNEY 8MITH, M.D., 



Lecturer on Physiology in the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction. 



Wood 



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

 •eparate divisions, and in paper to go by mail; no one division will cost over 50 cents, thua pre- 

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



