‘

Prlaritarirn effigies

ry

uc

concerned that very few wiedge of plant tt relied on illiterate apothe

canes who reeled in turn on peasarit WIN

identification of plants could be the patient. Fuchs arranged his

the herbs. Improper extremely hazardous to swork according to the <«

reek alphabet ihr particular field guide also provides

s indices in both Latin and French. This particular field quide was designed by the publisher because the

> original work did not sell well

Fuchs’s main contribution was in the quality of his illustrations, and this particular field guide did a very respectable job of reproducing them in a smaller size

Unfortunately later pocket editions became more and more degraded travesties of this noble original