(DOG ROSE OR HEP TREE) MEDICAL BOTANY WITH PLATES OF ALL THE MEDICINAL PLANTS IN THE MEDICAL CATALOGUES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA…. Plate 139, Rosa canina, (DOG ROSE OR HEP TREE)

1792. From 274 hand colored engraved plates by J. Sowerby. 185mm x 135mm. "William Woodville is noted for his early advocacy of the theory of vaccination and for these excellent volumes on Medical Botany" (Hunt, 716). "This work contains systematic and general descriptions of all the plants in the catalogues of the materia medica published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and is illustrated with excellent plates drawn and engraved by James Sowerby" (Henrey, I, p. 30).