Classic Herbal Texts.
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Books
- Barton, W., 1818: Vegetable Materia Medica of the US (not yet done).
- Bigelow, 1817-20: American Medical Botany.
- Blackwell, 1737-39: A Curious Herbal. - added more Apr2024.
- Blackwood, 1915: Observations with Medicago Sativa.
- Boericke, 1901: Materia Medica, an excerpt: the tinctures.
- Boierth, 1919: Kryddor och kryddodling.
- BPC, 1911: The British Pharmaceutical Codex. (not done yet)
- Cantell + Saarnio, 1936: Suomen myrkylliset ja lääkekasvit. (not done yet).
- Cook, 1869: The Physiomedical Dispensatory.
- Ellingwood, 1910, Eclectic Practice of Medicine with especial reference to The Treatment of Disease. (not done yet).
- Ellingwood, 1919: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy.
- Eneberg, 1915: Insamling af Inhemska Växtdroger.
- Felter + Lloyd, 1898: King's American Dispensatory.
- Felter, 1912: Biographies of King, Howe and Scudder.
- Felter, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
- Grotenfelt, 1915: Ohjeita Lääkekasvien Viljelemiseen Suomessa.
- Harding, 1936: Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants.
- Hayne, 1805-1837: Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse. (not done yet)
- Hedrick, 1919: Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. (not done yet)
- Hill, 1710: The Family Herbal.
- Hool, 1918: Health from British Wild Herbs.
- Hool, 1922: Common Plants and their Uses in Medicine.
- Hällström, 1898: Neuwoja Lääkekaswien kokoojille.
- Hällström, 1898: Tuloja vähävaraisille.
- Jones, 1911: Definite Medication.
- King's American Dispensatory. by Felter + Lloyd, 1898.
- King, 1854: The American Eclectic Dispensatory. (not done yet)
- Leggett, 1900: Tea leaves.
- Lilly's Collection of Crude Drugs, about 1916: Plant Collection. (done, for all practical purposes.)
- Lind + Verdier, 1940: Våra medicinalväxter.
- Lloyd J. U. & C. G., 1884-1887: Drugs And Medicines of North America.
- Lloyd J. U. & C. G., 1910: The Eclectic Alkaloids.
- Lloyd J. U., 1911: History of the Vegetable Drugs of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States.
- Lloyd J.U., 1922: Alcohol Adversely Criticised.
- Lloyd J.U., 1929: Licorice.
- Lönnrot, 1832: Afhandling om Finnarnes magiska medicin.
- Lönnrot, 1866: Flora Fennica - Suomen Kasvio.
- Madaus, 1938: Lehrbuch der Biologischen Heilmittel. (the plant entries only)
- Müller, 1860: Das große illustrirte Kräuter-Buch (just Urtica).
- Pereira, 1854: The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (not done yet)
- Petersen, 1905: Materia Medica and Clinical Therapeutics.
- Potter, 1902: A Compend of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing.
- Rafinesque, 1828: Medical Flora - (not quite done yet).
- Remington + Wood, 1918: The US Dispensatory.
- Salmon, 1710: Botanologia, or The English Herbal. (not done yet)
- Sayre, 1917: A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy.
- Schoenichen, 1947: Aus Wald und Feld den Tisch bestellt.
- Scudder, 1870: Specific Medication and Specific Medicines.
- Scudder, 1898: The American Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics. (not done yet).
- Scudder, W.B., 1885: Treatise on the Eye and Ear.
- Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World by Hedrick, 1919. (not done yet)
- Svensk Botanik, 1803-1830 (not done yet)
- Thomas, 1907: The Eclectic Practice of Medicine.
- Utrio, 1943: Pois pula ja puutteet.
- Virokannas, 1913: Tärkeimmät kotimaiset lääkekasvimme.
- Woodville, 1790-1794: Medical Botany. (not done yet)
Journals
- AJP: The American Journal of Pharmacy
- Vol. XLIII, 1871.
- Vol. 53, 1881.
- Vol. 55, 1883.
- Vol. 56, 1884.
- Vol. 57, 1885.
- Vol. 59, 1887.
- Vol. LXVII, 1895.
- ElTh: Ellingwood's Therapeutist.
- EMJ: The Eclectic Medical Journal
- Vol. xxxiv, 1874, January.
- NEMAQ: National Eclectic Medical Association Quarterly.
- NET: Transactions of the Nat'l Eclectic Medical Association
This is helpful if you want to read the numbers:
- "Appendix: II: Tables of Weights and Measures" (the first part), from The Dispensatory of the United States of America, by George B. Wood and Franklin Bache, 1876.
Where should you concentrate your efforts?
- The later the better (up to a point) - but however you look at it, King's is still the best, because of the sheer amount of detail.
- Eclectic (and physiomedical) MDs are better than pharmacists - at least if you're a practising herbalist. But King's was written by an eclectic MD and was extensively revised by both an eclectic MD and an eclectic pharmacist - it's not considered the best classic herbal work there is for nothing.
The best recent herbal work? Forget MDs there, they concentrate on more or less irrelevant single constituents (that being what they're used to). Go for books written by herbalists, by people who work with whole plants and with whole people. The ones I've found worthwhile are listed in the medicinal herb FAQ.
Last updated Apr2024. Have a comment? Tell me.
