This is the first ever translation of a landmark Renaissance text on medicinal plants, and the first to be dedicated solely to plants found in the Americas. John Frampton has faithfully translated the more than one hundred plant remedies included in this work, and for each one provides the Latin binomial, the Setonian name, and the English name, followed by a lengthy description of the plant, its uses, and the manner in which it was employed by the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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