Research Catalog

Title

Medicinal plants of North Africa / Loutfy Boulos ; illustrated by Magdy El-Gohary.

Author

Boulos, Loutfy.

Publication

Algonac, Mich. : Reference Publications, Inc., 1983.

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Details

Description

286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Descriptions of 369 indigenous, naturalized, or cultivated species (97 families) of plants in North Africa. Intended to "bridge the gap between folk and modern medicine." Arranged alphabetically by family names. Each entry gives species name, vernacular names in Arabic, Berber, English, and French; geographical area of growth; uses; and numbers referring to bibliographical citations. 103 plates. Glossary, bibliography (66 references), and indexes (medicinal, common names, and species).

Series Statement

Medicinal plants of the world ; no. 3

Uniform Title

Medicinal plants of the world ; no. 3.

Subject

• Medicinal plants > Africa, North
• Materia medica, Vegetable > Africa, North
• Traditional medicine > Africa, North
• Botany, Medical
• Medicinal plants
• Plants, Medicinal
• Northern Africa
• Egypt
• medicinal plants
• Botany, Medical
• Materia medica, Vegetable
• Medicinal plants
• Traditional medicine
• Plantes médicinales > Afrique du Nord
• Plantes médicinales > Identification
• Africa, North
• Africa, Northern
• North Africa

Note

• Maps on lining paper.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 210-214.

Contents

Foreword / Timothy Potts -- Preface / Deborah Willis -- Introduction: picturing the struggle for civil rights outside the South -- Northern underexposure -- The battle for self-representation -- Black power and beyond -- Surveillance and repression -- Epilogue: civil rights photography, then and now.

ISBN

• 0917256166
• 9780917256165

LCCN

82020412

OCLC

• ocm08866764
• 8866764
• SCSB-9547573

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library