AMERICAN

MEDICAL BOTANY.

VOLUME II. PART I.

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.

BY JACOB BIGELOW, M. D.

RUMFORD PROFESSOR AND LECTURER ON MATERIA MEDICA AND BOTANY
IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS AND HILLIARD, AT THE
BOSTON BOOKSTORE, NO. 1 CORNHILL.