Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany is one of the earliest books on the pharmacological use of plants published in the United States. Its text is grounded in the author’s firsthand knowledge as a botanist who roamed the New England countryside, and as a physician at a time when Western medicine still preserved its traditional foundations in the natural world. The work is also a monument of printing technology, for Bigelow devised an early technique of color printing for the reproduction of his plates. The contemporary rediscovery of herbal medicine adds a new relevance to this wide-ranging survey of since-buried lore. This Octavo Edition includes stunning book images and a searchable transcription. Commentary by Philip Weimerskirch.
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