Pharmacographia

A landmark history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, tracing the plants that became medicines across cultures and centuries.

At a glance Meticulous, learned and quietly wonderful, it stands as a founding work in the study of… Before the laboratory reshaped medicine, healing grew in gardens and forests, and this… What it's about Pharmacographia is a scholarly history of the principal drugs of… It surveys these botanical sources with care, describing their nature, their trade…

Pharmacographia is a scholarly history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, examining the plants that have furnished medicines and the long human story of their use.