Harvey Wickes Felter
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Harvey Wickes Felter was an eclectic medicine
doctor and co-author with John Uri Lloyd
of King's American Dispensatory
and Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica
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Eclectic medicine
Eclectic medicine was a branch of American medicine which made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, popular in the latter half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries....
doctor and co-author with John Uri Lloyd
John Uri Lloyd
John Uri Lloyd was an American pharmacist influential to the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism.He also wrote novels set in northern Kentucky...
of King's American Dispensatory
King's American Dispensatory
King's American Dispensatory is a book first published in 1854 that covers the uses of herbs used in American medical practice, especially by those involved in Eclectic medicine which was the botanical school of medicine in the 19th to 20th centuries...
and Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica
Eclectic Materia Medica
Eclectic Materia Medica is a materia medica written by the eclectic medicine doctor Harvey Wickes Felter This was the last, articulate, but in the end, futile attempt to stem the tide of Standard Practice Medicine, the antithesis of the model of the rural primary care "vitalist" physician that was...
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External links
- King's American Dispensatory @ Henriette KressHenriette KressHenriette Kress, known as "cyberspace's herbal archivist" is a well-known Finnish herbalist who has developed one of the most encyclopedic noncommercial web sites on herbal medicine worldwide...
's Herbal website. - http://www.swsbm.com/FelterMM/Felters.html The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D. (1922) Bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) files only from Michael Moore'sMichael Moore (herbalist)Michael Moore was a medicinal herbalist, author of several reference works on botanical medicine, and founder of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine . Before he was an herbalist Michael Moore was a musician and a composer...
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