Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1427

WILLIAM PAUL CRILLON BARTON (1786-1856) Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 1817-1818. M. Carey and Son 1818 xvi, 243 pp., plates 25-49 (col.). 26.9 cm.

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Barton was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a distinguished naval surgeon who, as Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department in 1844, was instrumental in securing a number of reforms in naval medicine. Barton's fame as a botanist rests on this beautifully-produced atlas covering medicinal plants indigenous to the United States.

Cited references: Austin 149 (1st ed., 1817-1818); Cushing B145; Garrison-Morton 1841 (1st ed.); Wellcome II, p. 110 (1st ed.)