Pharmacographia
A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in Great Britain and British India

Reissued here in its second edition of 1879, this substantial reference work provides information on vegetable material medica.

Friedrich August Flückiger (Author), Daniel Hanbury (Author)

9781108069304, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 March 2014

828 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm, 1.19 kg

First published in 1874 and reissued here in its second edition of 1879, this substantial work provides information on the vegetable material medica used by Victorian pharmacists, principally in Britain but also in India. Arranging the entries according to the type of plant from which each drug is derived, Daniel Hanbury (1825–75) and Friedrich August Flückiger (1828–94) give a description of each drug as well as covering its botanical origin and history, including its first medicinal application. They also discuss chemical composition, referring to the investigations of other scientists as well as their own, and comment on microscopic structure. Intending to create a broad reference work rather than an encyclopaedia, the authors chose not to focus on the therapeutic applications of the drugs. In many instances, however, they give some information on how the plant products are used. The appendix provides short biographical and bibliographical notes.

Preface
Preface to the second edition
Explanations
Thermometric table
Part I. Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants: 1. Dicotyledons and gymnosperms
2. Gymnosperms
3. Monocotyledons
Part II. Cryptogamous or Flowerless Plants: 1. Vascular cryptogams
2. Thallogens
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]