American Medical Botany, Plate XIX (Lobelia inflata)

period print · 1817

type:period print

year:1817

citation:Bigelow, Jacob. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing Their Botanical History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1820. Plate XIX, Lobelia inflata.

LINK

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_medical_botany_(Pl._XIX)_BHL2955772.jpg

SUMMARY

Hand-colored engraved plate of Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco), Plate XIX from Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820), a contemporaneous botanical/pharmacological reference work independent of Thomson. The Wikimedia Commons file page (category 'Lobelia inflata - botanical illustrations', 'American medical botany (1817)') is used as the rights-verification record: it is tagged Public Domain (PD-old-70-expired / CC-PD-Mark) and credits the direct holding-institution digitization, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/2955772). Used as the case's object-role media asset illustrating the plant that was Thomson's numbered remedy No. 1 and the substance at issue in his 1809 trial.

NOTES

Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany (Boston, 1817-1820), Plate XIX, is a hand-colored engraving of Lobelia inflata, published independently of Thomson as part of an early American work of scientific medical botany. Digitized by the Biodiversity Heritage Library and held on Wikimedia Commons as public domain, it supplies this case’s object-role illustration of the plant central to Thomson’s numbered remedy system and his 1809 trial.