The experienced botanist or Indian physician : being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants ... 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners / By J. W. Cooper.

  • Cooper, J. W.
Date:
1840
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Credit: The experienced botanist or Indian physician : being a new system of practice, founded on botany; containing: 1. A description of medicinal plants ... 2. A treatise on the causes, symptoms and cure of disease incident to the human frame; with a safe and sovereign mode of treatment. For the use of families and practitioners / By J. W. Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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