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A manual of vegetable materia medica / by George S.V. Wills.

Wills, George S. V., Glasgow University Library · 1883 · London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1883. · 18 pictures

A pharmacy textbook by George S.V. Wills, published in London in 1883 for students of vegetable materia medica learning to identify crude drugs. Numbered colour plates show specimens against blank grounds: barks and roots in rolls and quills, dried leaves, seeds cut open, resin lumps and fibrous rhizomes, usable as isolated botanical objects with hand-lettered catalogue numbers.

Botany, Medical · Phytotherapy

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