Medicinal plants and drugs of Travancore

  • Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891.
Date:
c.1855
Reference:
MS.4973
Part of:
Waring, Edward John (1819-1891)
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Description

A Catalogue of the principal medicinal plants and drugs of Travancore. With the medicinal uses of the same by the Natives of that Country. Serving to illustrate the Collection of articles sent to the Madras Exhibition. Author's holograph MS. Written on the rectos only. The title-page is signed 'E. Waring Assistant Surgeon'

Publication/Creation

c.1855

Physical description

218 ff. 4to 22 x 17 cm. Original half-calf binding, damaged.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1939.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 71402