Seneca snakeroot, polygala senega, in American Medical Botany (1818)
Title:
Seneca snakeroot, polygala senega, in American Medical Botany (1818)
Description:
A scan of two pages which depict the Seneca snakeroot, polygala senega, as shown in the second volume of Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany (1818).
Creator:
Gunn, John C.
Source:
History of Medicine Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Citation:
Bigelow, Jacob, William B. Annin, and John Redman Coxe. 1817. American Medical Botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings.
Alternative Text:
The Seneca snakeroot, polygala senega, depicted in Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany with a colored engraving on the left page and a description of the plant and its medicinal properties on the right page.
Original Format:
Book.
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