A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America

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A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America

By Laurence Johnston

A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America – For many years Botany has had no place in American Medical schools.” And no textbook on the subject has issued from the American Press during a generation.

As a result of this neglect, I believe that vegetable Materia medica is taught at a great disadvantage, and often imperfectly. Plants bear in relation to each other no less definite of the chemical compounds of in organic substances: and a knowledge of theses relations, should in my opinion, should proceed all attempts of classification of plants and therapeutic agents.

Furthermore, much of the credibility evidenced so called new remedies of so-called vegetable origin is directly traced to ignorance of plants in general, and in their relation to each other.’

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