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[Gart der Gesundheit].
Publication Info: [Augspurg :Gedruckt und volendet diser Herbariums durch Hamsen Schönsperger,1487]
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Botany
Botany, Medical
Early works to 1800
Herbs
Materia medica
Medicine, Medieval
Natural history
Pre-Linnean works
Therapeutic use
[R]ogatu plurimo[rum] inopu[m] num[m]o[rum] egentiu[m] appotecas refuta[n]tiu[m] occasione illa, q[uia] necessaria ibide[m] ad corp[us] egru[m] specta[n]tia su[n]t cara simplicia et composita ...
Publication Info: [Mainz :Peter Schoeffer,1484]
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Botany
Botany, Medical
Early works to 1800
Herbals
Herbs
Materia medica, Vegetable
Medicinal plants
Medicine, Medieval
Pictorial works
Pre-Linnean works
Therapeutic use
An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses:with practical remarks on dropsy, and other diseases /by William Withering.
Publication Info: Birmingham :Printed by M. Swinney for G.G.J. and J. Robinson ... London,1785.
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Digitalis
Materia medica, Vegetable
Scrophulariaceae
Therapeutic use
A curious herbal :containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life /by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick.
Publication Info: London : Printed for Samuel Harding, 1737-1739.
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Early works to 1800
Herbs
Medicinal plants
Pictorial works
Therapeutic use
Die Schrift des Monardes über die Arzneimittel Americas :nach der lateinischen Übertragung des Clusius aus dem Jahre 1579, simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historia /übersetzt und erläutert von Karl Stünzner ; mit einem Vorwort von Erich Harnack.
Publication Info: Halle a.S. :Niemeyer,1895.
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Botany
Botany, Medical
Herbals
Herbs
North America
Pre-Linnean works
South America
Therapeutic use
Euricii Cordi, Simesusii medici, Botanologicon.
Publication Info: Coloniae :Apud Ioannem Gymnicum,1534.
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Botany, Medical
Early works to 1800
Herbs
Medicinal plants
Therapeutic use
The family herbal;or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience /by Sir John Hill.
Publication Info: London,George Virtue[1812?]
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Botany, Medical
Great Britain
Herbs
Plants
Therapeutic use
Ioannis Guintherii Andernaci medici Commentarius de balneis, & aquis medicatis in tres dialogos distinctus.
Publication Info: Argentorati [Strasbourg, France] :[Excudebat Theodosius Rihelius,anno M.D. LXV] [1565]
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Balneology
Baths
Early works to 1800
Medicine
Mineral waters
Therapeutic use
New principles of gardening, or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. :after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands /by Batty Langley of Twickenham.
Publication Info: London :Printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [and 4 others],1728.
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Early works to 1800
Gardening
Herbs
Landscape gardening
Therapeutic use
On the medical properties of the natural order Ranunculaceae :and more particularly on the uses of sabadilla seeds, Delphinium straphisagria and Aconitum napellus, and their alcaloids, veratrai, sabadiline, delphinia, and aconitine /by A. Turnbull.
Publication Info: Philadelphia :Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell,1838.
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Aconitum
Botany, Medical
Delphinium
Materia medica, Vegetable
Ranunculaceae
Therapeutic use
P. Dioscoridae pharmacorum simplicium reiq[ue] medicae libri VIII /Io. Ruellio interprete ; una cum Herrn. Barbari Corollariis, & Marc. Vergilii, in singula capita cẽnsuris, sive annotationibus, adiecto indice duplici singuloru[m] simplicium & difficilium terminorum praeter alia multa, quae in prefatione indicantur quaeq[ue] in prioribus aeditionibus desyderabantur.
Publication Info: In inclyta Argentorato [Strasbourg] :Apud Io. Schottum,1529.
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Botany, Medical
Early works to 1800
Herbals
Herbs
Materia medica
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Therapeutic use
Tabacologia :hoc est Tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica, vel, ejus praeparatio et usus in omnibus fermè corporis humani incõmodis /per Johannem Neandrum ...
Publication Info: Lugduni Batavorum :Ex Officina Isaaci Elzeviri ...,1626.
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Early works to 1800
Nicotiana
Solanaceae
Therapeutic use
Tobacco
The useful family herbal, or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues :and of the drugs, which are produced by vegetables of other countries : with their descriptions, and their uses, as proved by experience : illustrated with figures of the most useful English plants : with an introduction ... and an appendix containing a proposal for the farther seeking into the virtues of English herbs, and the manner of doing it with ease and safety : the whole intended for the use of families, and for the instruction of those who are desirous of relieving the distressed sick /by John Hill ...
Publication Info: London :Printed for W. Johnston ... and :W. Owen ...,1755.
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Botany, Medical
Early works to 1800
Great Britain
Herbs
Materia medica, Vegetable
Therapeutic use