Below are resources for your Historical Formula Research Paper. Roll up your sleeves and get ready to dig in. This kind of searching doesn't lend itself to the obvious resources. That said, you'll learn new research techniques and resources that you can use for future assignments.
Be sure to review the advanced Google search techniques, in particular, the third one with instructions on how to search within a specific website or domain. If you've prowled around and come up empty, reach out to your librarians.
Top tips for approaching this assignment.
You will have to search multiple sources to piece together, find pieces of information and then "pull the thread" to see what you can find out about each "clue". Think of this as an investigation, or detective work!
Search for your formula in Les Moore's Classical Formulas in the Western Herbal Tradition. If your formula is there, you will find information on when it was created, by whom, what the constituents are AND what it's used for!
You will need to go further than just the information in Classical Formulas in the Western Herbal Tradition, but it's a great starting point. You will then need to search either on the open web, or in specific herbal databases to find out as much as you can about:
For additional resources, see the Herbal Sciences guide.
Google: try the advanced techniques to dig deeper. What's the difference between Google and Google Scholar? (see box below) The latter searches primarily academic sites (not commercial ones). Google searches all formats including blogs, personal websites, government and commercial. It's up to you to apply your critical thinking skills to the results.
Here are some ways to refine your search in order to find the most relevant, reliable sources, and filter out some of the less appropriate information.
When you're searching the catalog, try using the the subject heading, Medicine, Eclectic.
American materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacognosy, : developing the latest acquired knowledge of drugs, and especially of the direct action of single drugs upon exact conditions of disease, with especial reference to the therapeutics of the plant dr
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Classical formulas in the western herbal tradition
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Culpeper's complete herbal, and English physician
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The eclectic materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics
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Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals, 5 volumes
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King's American Dispensatory
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A Physical directory, or, A translation of the Dispensatory made by the Colledg of Physitians of London and by them imposed upon all the apothecaries of England to make up their medicines by/ by Nich. Culpeper. (1651)
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The Physio-Medical Dispensatory: A Treatise on Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy in Accordance With the Principles of Physiological Medication
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Google Scholar :
Go to the A - Z list and navigate to Google Scholar
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