The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine.

The characteristic symptoms of the most important remedies.An accurate and reliable compilation of the most common remedies.Around 300 remedies are covered.

First edition of the work that Bigelow authored in following up on his involvement for the first Pharmacopoeia published in the United States in 1820. The Materia Medica gives the origin, qualities, and medical uses of hundreds of plants, vegetables, herbs, etc. "Bigelow's vision insured that the whole United States would have a single unified materia medica."--ILAB.