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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States |
| Reference | Log.2142.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Collection | Collins |
| Date | c. 1817-1820 |
| Author | Bigelow, Jacob |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Cummings and Hilliard |
| Place of Creation | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Description | Volume 3 |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Botanic Medicine |
| Keywords | botany, medicine, herbs, diet |
| Additional Information | In 1815 Bigelow was appointed lecturer in materia medica and botany at Harvard. Bigelow was one of the committee of five that compiled the first Pharmacopeia of the United States (1820). The sixty plates that illustrate the text were engraved after Bigelow's original coloured drawings. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |