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 Mentha aquatica or Sisymbrium (Water Mint) p32
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descriptions of plates 33-36

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Illustration of Laminum album or Urtica mortua (White Archangel or Dead Nettle) p33
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Illustration of Solanum lignosum or Dulca mara (Woody Night Shade or Bitter Sweet) p34

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