A general natural history

or New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world : with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics : illustrated by a general review of the knowledge of the ancients, and the discoveries and improvements of later ages in these studies : including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages : as also observations on the neglected properties of many valuable substances known at present : and attempts to discover the lost medicines, &c. of former ages, in a series of critical enquiries into the materia medica of the anceint Greeks : with a great number of figures, elegantly engraved