Catalogue of medicinal plants, according to their natural orders / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Andrew Duncan
Date:
1826
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Credit: Catalogue of medicinal plants, according to their natural orders / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV A DYE 11TISE ME N T. to remember, so many, often strange names, from hearing them once or twice pronounced in a lecture, and because De Candolle (whose arrangement in his Essay on the Medicinal Virtues of Plants I have adopted) has not given an enume¬ ration of the individuals belonging to each family ; while Richard, in his Medical Botany, has confined himself to the species officinal in the French Pharmacopoeia. My ob¬ ject has been to make the List universal; as Pupils from this school go to every part of the world, and a knowledge of the instruments of our art cannot be too general, although in its exercise we may content ourselves with a few. I have, how¬ ever, divided the Species belonging to each Family into two sections; the one containing the plants officinal in the British Pharmacopoeias, that the Student may be apprized that his attention is to be chiefly directed to them. ANDREW DUNCAN junior. 31^ March 1826.