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• Blackwood, 1915: Observations with Medicago Sativa.
• Boericke, 1901: Materia Medica, an excerpt: the tinctures.
• Boierth, 1919: Kryddor och kryddodling.
• BPC, 1911: The British Pharmaceutical Codex. (not done yet)
• Cantell + Saarnio, 1936: Suomen myrkylliset ja lääkekasvit. (not done yet)
• Cook, 1869: The Physiomedical Dispensatory.
• Ellingwood, 1910, Eclectic Practice of Medicine with especial reference to The Treatment of Disease. - added more 27May2008
• Ellingwood, 1919: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy.
• Eneberg, 1915: Insamling af Inhemska Växtdroger.
• Felter + Lloyd, 1898: King's American Dispensatory.
• Felter, 1912: Biographies of King, Howe and Scudder.
• Felter, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
• Grotenfelt, 1915: Ohjeita Lääkekasvien Viljelemiseen Suomessa.
• Harding, 1936: Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants.
• Hedrick, 1919: Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. (not done yet)
• Hällström, 1898: Neuwoja Lääkekaswien kokoojille.
• Hällström, 1898: Tuloja vähävaraisille.
• Jones, 1911: Definite Medication. (not yet done)
• Leggett, 1900: Tea leaves.
• Lind + Verdier, 1940: Våra medicinalväxter.
• Lloyd J. U. & C. G., 1884-1887: Drugs And Medicines of North America.
• Lloyd J. U. & C. G., 1910: The Eclectic Alkaloids.
• Lloyd J. U., 1911: History of the Vegetable Drugs of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, by John Uri Lloyd, 1911.
• Lloyd J.U., 1922: Alcohol Adversely Criticised.
• Lloyd J.U., 1929: Licorice.
• Lönnrot, 1832: Afhandling om Finnarnes magiska medicin.
• Lönnrot, 1866: Flora Fennica - Suomen Kasvio.
• Madaus, 1938: Lehrbuch der Biologischen Heilmittel. (the plant entries only)
• Pereira, 1854: The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. - added more 27May2008
• Petersen, 1905: Materia Medica and Clinical Therapeutics.
• Potter, 1902: A Compend of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing.
• Remington + Wood, 1918: The US Dispensatory.
• Sayre, 1917: A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy.
• Schoenichen, 1947: Aus Wald und Feld den Tisch bestellt.
• Scudder, 1870: Specific Medication and Specific Medicines.
• Scudder, 1898: The American Eclectic Materia Medica and Therapeutics. - added more 27May2008
• Thomas, 1907: The Eclectic Practice of Medicine.
• Utrio, 1943: Pois pula ja puutteet.

This is helpful if you want to read the numbers:

• "Appendix: II: Tables of Weights and Measures" (the first part), from The Dispensatory of the United States of America, by George B. Wood and Franklin Bache, 1876.

Where should you concentrate your efforts?

• The later the better (up to a point) - but however you look at it, King's is still the best, because of the sheer amount of detail.

• Eclectic (and physiomedical) MDs are better than pharmacists - at least if you're a practising herbalist. But King's was written by an eclectic MD and was extensively revised by both an eclectic MD and an eclectic pharmacist - it's not considered the best classic herbal work there is for nothing.

The best recent herbal work? Forget MDs there, they concentrate on more or less irrelevant single constituents (that being what they're used to). Go for books written by herbalists, by people who work with whole plants and with whole people. The ones I've found worthwile are listed in the medicinal herbfaq.

Last updated 27May2008. Have a comment? Tell me.