I must confess that I really like to hold a book in my hands rather than reading it on line. However,this is not always possible, the book is not available or is way out of my budget. So, it is quite delightful to find so many books on herbal subjects available on line.
I was recently looking at the site of American herbalist and teacher, Michael Moore  www.swsbm.com/homepage/
This contains the text of many old physiomedical books including Ellingwood's Materia Medica and 3 British books:

Prescriber and clinical repertory of Medicinal Herbs by F.Harper Shove[1938], very much a practitioner work.

Herbal Manual by Harold Ward [1936], a nice collection of monographs.

Model Family Botanic Guide to Health by William Fox 23rd edition [1924]. Three generations of the Sheffield based Fox family regularly revised and updated this work.
Many eclectic works can be found on the site, Moore says "In 1990 I visited the Lloyd Library in Cincinatti, Ohio, where in the basement I found the accumulated libraries of all the Eclectic Medical Schools as, one by one, they died."

Barbara Grigg's "Green Pharmacy" contains the history of the Eclectic medical practice.

Kevin

[Edited to make the link clickable]

Hi Kevin

Thanks for the link, I have come across it before but appear to have lost it, so I've added it to my favourite places once again. I'm lucky in so far as I own a copy of Harold Ward's book, which in parts resembles an abridged version of Mrs Grieve's 'Modern Herbal'. I have been trying to track down a copy of William Fox's book for some time, but the prices thus far have been silly. I'll try to read the book online, but like you I prefer to physically hold the book in my hands.

I do still owe you a list of the recent 'old' herb books I've added to my collection, last weeks bounty comprised of:-

The Art of Natural Healing by Dr Carl Q. Schilling [1931] and American chap, the book includes recipes that contain listerine of all things, apparently the mouthwash has been around in the states since around 1879, but originally it wasn't a mouthwash but an antiseptic for surgeons, it wasn't marketed publicly as a mouthwash until 1914, but I digress.

I have parts 1 - 8 of Pointers To The Common Remedies by Dr Margaret L Tyler [1939] a series of booklets on homeopathy, there were apparently 9 parts, no idea what the last part was called so if anybody knows to help my search to complete the set I'd appreciate it?

Herbal Teas For Health And Pleasure by Donald Law [1968].

The Roots Of Health by Leon Petulengro [1968], Leon being the son of Gipsy Petulengro the famed  Gipsy that had a BBC radio show about romany remedies and recipes in the 1930's.

The Physick Garden by Edith Grey Wheelwright [first published 1934 but mine is the 1939 version]. The delightful thing about this book aside from all the wonderful information within, is the the book is dedicated to Beatrix Potter, seems that the author was also a fan of Mrs Grieve as well More on the last two books in another post later today.

Debs