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Medical botany. Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmocopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed / [William Woodville].

Ambrosia altera.

Adam in Eden, or nature's paradise. The history of plants, fruits, herbs, and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English ... as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues ... / By William Coles, herbarist.

Hortus Malabaricus and the socio-cultural heritage of India / K.S. Manilal.

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

The elements of materia medica : comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines / by Jonathan Pereira, F.R.S. & L.S.

Colóquios dos simples e drogas da Índia / por Garcia da Orta, edição publicada por deliberação da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, dirigida e annotada pelo Conde de Ficalho.

An oration, delivered before the Medico-Botanical Society of London, at the commencement of its ninth session, Tuesday, 28th October, 1828 / by John Frost.

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Botany, Medical

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Hortus Malabaricus and the socio-cultural heritage of India / K.S. Manilal.

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

The elements of materia medica : comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines / by Jonathan Pereira, F.R.S. & L.S.

Colóquios dos simples e drogas da Índia / por Garcia da Orta, edição publicada por deliberação da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, dirigida e annotada pelo Conde de Ficalho.

An oration, delivered before the Medico-Botanical Society of London, at the commencement of its ninth session, Tuesday, 28th October, 1828 / by John Frost.

Botany, Medical

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Images about Botany, Medical

Works from the collections

Hortus Malabaricus and the socio-cultural heritage of India / K.S. Manilal.

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris : avec leur usage dans la medecine.

The elements of materia medica : comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines / by Jonathan Pereira, F.R.S. & L.S.

Colóquios dos simples e drogas da Índia / por Garcia da Orta, edição publicada por deliberação da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, dirigida e annotada pelo Conde de Ficalho.

An oration, delivered before the Medico-Botanical Society of London, at the commencement of its ninth session, Tuesday, 28th October, 1828 / by John Frost.

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