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Joseph Carson (1808 - 1876)
Illustrations of medical botany : consisting of coloured figures of the plants affording the important articles of the materia medica, and descriptive letterpress, 1847 (pdf)
"Illustrations of Medical Botany, Joseph Carson's two-volume work of materia medica, was published in 1847. Intended for students, physicians, and pharmacists, Carson set out for his work to supplant two important works of medical botany, American Medical Botany by Jacob Bigelow and Vegetable materia medica of the United States by William Barton. Carson's work includes 100 color plates, with lithography by J. H. Colen."
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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