- John Uri Lloyd
John Uri Lloyd (
19 April 1849 —9 April 1936 ) was an Americanpharmacist influential in the fields ofpharmacognosy ,ethnobotany ,economic botany , andherbalism .Michael A. Flannery, "John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic", Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8093-2167-X]Life and career
Born in upstate New York to teachers Nelson Marvin Lloyd and Sophia Webster, his family moved to Florence and Petersburg in northern
Kentucky , nearCincinnati, Ohio in 1853. Lloyd took anapprentice ship with chemist William J.M. Gordon when he was 14 and later apprenticed with George Eger.His younger brothers Nelson Ashley Lloyd (1851-1926) and Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859-1926) entered the field as well, and in 1886 the brothers renamed the Merrell and Thorpe Company as Lloyd Brothers, Pharmacists, Inc.
In 1919 Lloyd and his two brothers established trusts to fund the
Lloyd Library and Museum . Today the Lloyd Library and Museum is considered by many to house the finest collections in the world devoted to Eclectic Medicine, medical botany and pharmacy.After Lloyd's death, S.B. Penick bought the firm in 1938, and in 1960 the German pharmaceutical manufacturerHoechst AG purchased the operations. Lloyd's innovations include a "cold still" for plant extractions and the firstbuffered alkaloid calledalcresta (made with hydrousaluminium silicate ). His most enduring legacy is the Lloyd Library and Museum and a series oflocal color novels about the Northern Kentucky area, and "Etidorhpa ", a scientific allegory that some consider the first real work ofscience fiction .The
John Uri Lloyd House in Cincinnati was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.ee also
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Herbalism
*Pharmacognosy
*Pharmacology
*Eclectic medicine
*Harvey Wickes Felter
*Michael Moore (herbalist)
*David Winston
*Lloyd Library and Museum
*King's American Dispensatory Bibliography
*"Stringtown on the Pike: A Tale of Northernmost Kentucky" (1901)
*"Red Head" (1903)
*"Etidorhpa " (1895; rpt. 1997 ISBN 1-56459-243-X)References
External links
*http://www.lloydlibrary.org/history/index.html Lloyd Library and Museum
* [http://www.geocities.com/boonehistory/jul_univ.html The Life and Adventures of Dr. John Uri Lloyd, M.D., Ph.D.]
* [http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/kings King's American Dispensatory] @ Henriette's Herbal
* [http://geocities.com/florencekentucky/Stringtown/TableOfContents.htm Stringtown on the Pike]
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