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The book contains systematic account of most important plants used in medicine. The text of each plant is divided into two portions; the first devoted to the description of the species, its localities and other purely botanical matter; the second to the general character, composition, properties and uses of its parts or products which are employed in medicine or otherwise. The work is thus of a too comprehensive character for one author, Professor Bentley, who ...
Medicinal plants a systematic account of the most important plants used in medicine. Most species have the misfortune to receive more then one name, a result of different views held either as to the limits of genera or of species, as well as of ignorance of the existence of a previous name. The description of the plant, which follows has been given in somewhat full detail, and in strictly scientific but not very technical language, presupposing some knowledge of ...