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Lidén Number 171
Respondent: Johan Lindwall (1743-1796)
Title: Observationes in Materiam medicam, ...
Date of Defense: 5 June 1772
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-8
Lidén Title: Observationes in materiam medicam.
Soulsby Title: Obs. mat. med.
Drake Title: Observationes in Materiam Medicam.
Note:
Abstract: A compendium on the medicinal and pharmacological uses of the enumerated species of plants, to which is appended a second listing of species of only putative therapeutic value. Linnaeus supported in this thesis the opinion that medicinal qualities of plants often are correlated with a group of species having common botanical affinities.