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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

John Mitchell Watt & Maria Gerdina Breyer-Brandwijk

THE MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (1932)

Published: E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1932

Edition: First Edition

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Publisher's blue cloth binding with blind stamped titles on front panel and titles in gilt on spine.

xx + 314pp. Illustrated.

Binding tight. Contents clean.

'SOUTHERN AFRICA, with its wealth and variety of flora, has accumulated through the centuries a great mass of popular remedies, both Native and European. It has only recently been realised how rich African lore is in this respect. Bushman, Hottentot, and Bantu have each their full share, while the White man, since his occupation of the sub-continent, has been adding to the treasury.

These remedies are in common use, but much of the folk-medicine of the South African native tribes is vanishing before the advancing tide of civilisation with its synthetic medicines.

Our aim has been to give all the available information on the medicinal uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects, and human and veterinary toxicology of the flora of Southern Africa. It forms an amazing record.'

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 4to.
  • Sold By: Rare Paper
  • Contact Person: Armandt Marais
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 0741235861
  • Preferred Payment Methods: EFT, Bank Deposit. For International Customers: Paypal with 6% surcharge, International Transfer
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