MEDICAL BOTANY: 



DESCRIPTIONS 



OF THE 



MORE IMPORTANT PLANTS USED IN MEDICINE, 



THEIR HISTORY, PROPERTIES, 



AND 



MODE OF ADMINISTRATION. 



BY R. EGLESFELD GRIFFITH, M.D., 



MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ; OP THE ACADEMY OF 

 NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC. ETC. 



Scire potestates berbarum usumque medendi. — ^Ineid. xii. 396. 



WITH UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PHILADELPHIA: 



LEA AND BLANCHARD. 



1847. 



