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Köhler's Medicinal Plants
Editor Gustav Pabst
Author Hermann Adolph Köhler et al.
Original title Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte : Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica etc.
Illustrators
  • K. Gunther
  • Walther Otto Müller
  • C. F. Schmidt
Language German
Publisher Franz Eugen Köhler
Publication date
  • 1887 (Volume 1)
  • 1890 (Volume 2)
  • 1898 (Volume 3)
Media type Print

Köhler's Medicinal Plants is a German herbal written principally by Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834 - 1879, physician and chemist), and edited after his death by Gustav Pabst.

The work was first published in the late 19th century by Franz Eugen Köhler of Gera.

Originally, Köhler published the herbal in two volumes: the first in 1887, the second in 1890. Volume one is illustrated with 84 full-page, multi-colour plates, and volume two with 110. A third volume was added in 1898.

Among the additions are 80 more colour plates. A fourth volume was announced by the publisher, but never released.

All the colour plates in the herbal were produced through a process called chromolithography. The botanical illustrators were Walther Otto Müller, C. F. Schmidt, and K. Gunther.

Together with the images of plants, the atlas includes detailed botanical descriptions and information about the medical effectiveness of these plants (Herbalism).

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