Plants that heal
By: Illustrated by Kathleen Elgin.
Contributors: Elgin, Kathleen, illus.
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: 1959
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicinal plants.; Medicinal plants.
Description: Summary, Traces briefly the history of man's use of plants as medicine, describes the discovery of several plants which made medical history, tells of the plant medicines which are still in use today and of new uses of old plants, and discusses poisonous plants.