Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1445

JACOB BIGELOW (1787-1879) A treatise on the materia medica, intended as a sequel to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. C. Ewer 1822 424 pp. 21.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1443

Trained as a physician, Bigelow was also a skilled botanist, and several of his works, notably American medical botany (see No. 1444) and Medical botany, brought acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. This treatise on the properties of drugs is an attempt to describe and otherwise expand upon the items in the newly published Pharmacopoeia of the United States. Here Bigelow examines "the sources from which they are derived, the properties by which they are known, the objectives which they fulfill in practice, and the manner in which they are to be applied" (from the Preface).

See Related Record(s): 1444

Cited references: Cushing B393; Wellcome I, p. 166

Gift of John Martin, M.D.