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Pharmacographia

Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury

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Where did opium, cinchona, and rhubarb actually come from? Pharmacographia answers with obsessive care, tracing the principal drugs of vegetable origin through botany, history, commerce, and chemistry, family by family from the Ranunculaceae onward. Victorian pharmacognosy at its monumental best, and still a mine of drug history that nothing has quite replaced. A reference to get lost in for weeks.

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93 chapters

  1. 1PHARMACOGRAPHIA.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  4. 4EXPLANATIONS.
  5. 5CONTENTS.
  6. 6I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS.
  7. 7Dicotyledons and Gymnosperms.
  8. 8RANUNCULACEÆ.
  9. 9MAGNOLIACEÆ.
  10. 10MENISPERMACEÆ.
  11. 11BERBERIDEÆ.
  12. 12PAPAVERACEÆ.
  13. 13CRUCIFERÆ.
  14. 14CANELLACEÆ.
  15. 15BIXINEÆ.
  16. 16POLYGALEÆ.
  17. 17GUTTIFERÆ.
  18. 18DIPTEROCARPEÆ.

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