This volume contains an encyclopaedic treatise on materia medica by the physician and poet Bursalı Hekim Ali Efendi (died 1146 AH/1733 CE), known as Ali Münşi. The work is dedicated to Sultan Mahmud I (ruled 1143-1168 AH/1730-1754 CE). Although likely born in Istanbul, he was known as Bursalı A...