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Ellingwood, 1919: the American Materia Medica.

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Scanned version copyright © 2001–2025 Michael Moore. Used with permission.
This is the .html version. You'll find the .pdf version on Michael's site.


The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1919, was written by Finley Ellingwood, M.D.
It was scanned by Michael Moore for the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine.

  • Introduction to Ellingwood's Materia Medica.
  • Group I. Agents acting on the nervous system.
  • Group II. Agents acting upon the heart.
  • Group III. Agents acting upon the respiratory tract.
  • Group IV. Agents acting upon the stomach.
  • Group V. Agents acting upon the intestinal glandular organs and upon the intestinal canal.
  • Group VI. Agents influencing the character of the blood.
  • Group VII. Agents acting upon the genito-urinary organs.
  • Group VIII. Agents used for their influence upon the skin.
  • Group IX. Agents acting upon the female reproductive organs.
  • Group X. Agents acting upon micro-organisms and parasites.
  • The plant entries.

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