Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800
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A Dissertation on the Nature and Effects of a New Vegetable Remedy, an Acknowledged Specific in All Venereal Scorbutic and Scrophulous Cases, as Published By Authority of His Britanick Majesty's Royal Letter Patent, Granted to J. Burrows, M.D. in the Year 1765 (third edition; London: Printed for the author, 1780), by John Burrows (page images at NIH)- The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation (London: P. Cole, 1652), by Nicholas Culpeper (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, An Herball of Large Extent (London: Printed by T. Cotes, 1640), by John Parkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voynich manuscript
- The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of All Maner of Herbes (London: L. Andrewe, ca. 1530), by Hieronymus Brunschwig, trans. by Laurence Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation (London: P. Cole, 1652), by Nicholas Culpeper (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Medicinal plants- The Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper (HTML at Bibliomania)
- Plantas Medicinales de Yucatán y Guía Medica Práctica Doméstica (text and atlas volumes, in Spanish; Mérida, MX: Imp. de la Loteria del Estado, 1913), by Benjamin Cuevas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Plants: The Potentials for Extracting Protein, Medicines, and Other Useful Chemicals (OTA-BP-F-23; 1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Les Plantes Médicinales de la Guinée (in French; Paris: A. Challamel, 1912), by Henri Pobéguin
- Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value: Found Among the Mountains and Elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands, and Known to the Hawaiians to Possess Curative and Palliative Properties Most Effective in Removing Physical Ailments (Honolulu: Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii, 1922), ed. by D. M. Kaaiakamanu and J. K. Akina, trans. by Akaiko Akana (page images at HathiTrust)
- Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #60; 1975), by Karen Cowan Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lekovite Sirovine (partial serial archives)
- Lekovite Sirovine (partial serial archives)
- Lekovite Sirovine (partial serial archives)
- Lekovite Sirovine (partial serial archives)
- Lekovite Sirovine (partial serial archives)
- Lekovite Sirovine (partial serial archives)
- American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, c1887), by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the Most Useful Plants, Which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick (2 volumes; London: Printed for Samuel Harding (v1) and John Nourse (v2), 1737-1739), by Elizabeth Blackwell (page images at illustratedgarden.org)
- Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), ed. by Chidi Oguamanam (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, c1887), by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing Their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses In Medicine, Diet and the Arts, With Coloured Engravings (3 volumes; Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1820), by Jacob Bigelow
- The American Botanist, and Family Physician (Wheelock, VT: J. Morrison, 1824), by John Monroe, ed. by Silas Gaskill (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, c1887), by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Patterns of Life Force: A Review of the Life and Work of Dr Edward Bach and His Discovery of the Bach Flower Remedies (1987), by Julian Barnard (frame-dependent HTML at edwardbach.org)
- History of the Vegetable Drugs of the Pharmacopeia of the United States (1911), by John Uri Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Dispensatory (fifth edition; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1859), by John King
- Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States: Read Before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the Twenty-First of February, 1798 (Philadelphia: Printed for the author by Way and Groff, 1798), by Benjamin Smith Barton (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper (HTML at Bibliomania)
- New Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia and Posology (New York: W. Radde, 1850), by Charles J. Hempel
- New Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia and Posology (London: J. Leath, 1850), by Charles J. Hempel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Discussions Between Several Members of the Regular Medical Faculty, and the Thomsonian Botanic Physicians, on the Comparative Merits of Their Respective Systems (Columbus, OH: Printed by J. Phillips, 1836), by Alva Curtis
- Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value: Found Among the Mountains and Elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands, and Known to the Hawaiians to Possess Curative and Palliative Properties Most Effective in Removing Physical Ailments (Honolulu: Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii, 1922), ed. by D. M. Kaaiakamanu and J. K. Akina, trans. by Akaiko Akana (page images at HathiTrust)
- Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #60; 1975), by Karen Cowan Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
- volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
- 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
- Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
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