An inaugural botanico-medical dissertation, on the Phytolacca decandra of Linnaeus.
By: By Benjamin Shultz, of Pennsylvania, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.
Contributors: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815, dedicatee.; Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818, dedicatee.; Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.; Bartram, William, 1739-1823, ill.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29510.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no 41, South Second-Street.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania. -- Dept. of Medicine -- Dissertations.; Botany, Medical.; Materia medica.; Phytolaccaceae.; Pokeweed.
Notes: "An inaugural dissertation, submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the twenty-first day of May, 1795."

Dedicated to Caspar Wistar and Benjamin Smith Barton.

Plate signed: W. Bartram del: Thackara exct.

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