Medical Botany, William Woodville
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Title
Medical Botany, William Woodville
Description
Medical Botany, William Woodville's three volume work of materia medica, was published in monthly installments between 1790 and 1793. With this work, Woodville intended to educate medical practitioners about the plants they prescribe and improve upon preceding works by introducing new plants and more detail. It contains 210 plates, with hand-colored engravings by artist James Sowerby.
Woodville, William, 1752–1805. Medical botany (London : Printed and sold for the author, by James Phillips, 1790-1793)
Qx 113 (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)