Las yerbas de la gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants

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Karen Cowan Ford

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Karen Cowan Ford provides a guide to five extensive collections of medicinal plants from the Southwest U.S. and Mexico that are housed at the Ethnobotanical Laboratory (now part of the Archaeobiology Laboratories) at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Includes information on the Spanish and botanical names of the plants, where they were collected, and their historical use.