An experimental botanico-chemical essay on two native species of Laurus
By: By Austin Brockenbrough, Jun. of Virginia: honorary member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. ; [Four lines from E. Darwin]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 5912
Publisher: Printed for the author, by S.W. Conrad, no. 22, Pewter-Platter Alley.
Published: 1804
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Phytotherapy; Plant Preparations; Laurus; Dissertations; Sassafras; Benzoin; University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine
Other titles: Of the Laurus sassafras and benzoin of Linnæus.
Notes: "An inaugural dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine: submitted to the examination of the Reverend John Andrews, D.D. provost, (pro tempore) the trustees, and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 5th day of June, 1804."--p. [3].

Caption title, p. [11]: Of the Laurus sassafras and benzoin of Linnæus.

Dedicated to the author's father, Dr. John Brockenbrough, Sen. of Tappahannock, Va., and Benjamin S. Barton, M.D.

Shaw & Shoemaker 5912

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 276

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