Item No: #35536 Materia Medica of Madras. Volume I (all published). Mohideen Sherif, titled Khan Bahadur.
Materia Medica of Madras. Volume I (all published)
Materia Medica of Madras. Volume I (all published)

Useful Plants of Madras, India, Including the Opium Poppy

Materia Medica of Madras. Volume I (all published)

Notes: xi, 161 pages, including indexes in English, French, German, Hindustani, and several other Indian languages. "Printed and published by order of the Madras government, at the recommendation of the Madras working committee, Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883–1884.

A listing of plants, with descriptions of their medical use, often citing earlier publications, including a long entry on opium.

Sherif was a retired physician and a graduate of the Madras Medical College; this work was published posthumously, which may explain why no volume II ever appeared.

Edition + Condition: Modern cloth and marbled paper binding; leather spine label. Covers faded. Text block a bit tanned but very good.

Publication: Madras: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1891.

Item No: #35536

Price: $150

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