MBG Rare Books: Structure of 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.

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. Volume 1 of 2

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Illustration of Lamium rubrum (Red Archangel) p182
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Illustration of Cichorium Sylvestre (Wild Succory) p183

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Illustration of Viscum or Viscus quercinus (Misseltoe) p184
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descriptions of plates 185-188

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