Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798. / By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. One of the honorary members of the Society, and professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany, in the University of Pennsylvania. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin]

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Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798. / By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. One of the honorary members of the Society, and professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany, in the University of Pennsylvania. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin]

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Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.

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Philadelphia: :: Printed, for the author, by Way & Groff, no. 27, Arch-Street.,

1798.

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Materia medica -- United States.

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Contents

• title page
• copyright
• TO JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M. D. F. R. S. PRESIDENT OF THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES OF TURIN, UPSAL, AND LISBON; AND MEMBER of the AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, &c.
• PREFACE.
• ERRATUM.
• COLLECTIONS, &c.
  • MATERIA ALIMENTARIA.
  • MATERIA MEDICA.
    • SECT. I. ASTRINGENTS.
    • SECT. II. TONICS.
    • SECT. III. STIMULANTS, OR INCITANTS.
      • GENERAL STIMULANTS.
      • TOPICAL STIMULANTS.
    • SECT. IV. ERRHINES.
    • SECT. V. SIALAGOGA.
    • SECT. VI. EMETICS.
    • SECT. VII. CATHARTICS.
    • SECT. VIII. DIURETICS.
    • SECT. IX. ANTHELMINTICS.
• APPENDIX, CONTAINING ILLUSTRATIONS AND ADDITIONS.