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.
