A complete dictionary of the whole materia medica

containing an experimental history of every natural and artificial substance made use of in medicine : with a compendious view of their natural history, an account of their pharmaceutic properties, and an estimate of their medicinal powers, so far as they can be ascertained by experience, or by rational induction from their sensible qualities

The 4th ed. / with numerous additions and corrections, by John Aikin, M.D.