Drugs and Foods from Little-Known Plants. Notes in Harvard University Herbaria by Altschul, Siri Von Reis

Cambridge, MA (1975): Harvard University Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Second Printing. 8366 pp. With the Encroachment of Civilized Cultures on Primative Societies, Unique Traditions, often Unwritten---are Being destroyed. In man instances, the very plants involved are disappearing. Not infrequentlu, the only record, where one exists at all of these vanishing pools of knowledge is that of the botanical file worker. The author has compiled field nites of health and medical interest on over 5,000 species culled from over 2,500,000 specimens. This is his list of thos plants listed alphbetically, whre they were found, their uses and more.Bound in brown cloth, spin lettring silver. A very nice copy in dust jacket with short closed tear and rubbing to spine, spine faded.