A Contribution to South African Materia Medica, Chiefly from Plants in Use Among the Natives

Smith, Andrew

Description:

217 x 140 mm; printed wrappers; pp. viii + [5] -163 + (i). SABIB confirms that the page numbering, following the preliminaries, starts at page five. Wrappers fragile, curled, and a bit soiled; backstrip fragmented; fox spots throughout, especially to edges. (SABIB 4, p. 230; Mendelssohn II, p. 325 [3rd edition]) 'The plants described in this volume are stated to have "been in use among the natives for medicinal purposes for a very long period. Some of them are well known, others are known only to a few, who keep the knowledge of their virtues to themselves with profound secrecy, and occasionally mislead people by showing other plants, or ascribing to a plant some use very different from its real one."' - Mendelssohn. Early work on South African indigenous medicine.

Details:

  • Publisher: Lovedale Institution Press
  • Publisher Place: Lovedale
  • Date of Publication: 1888
  • Edition: 2nd edition
  • Lot No: 241
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