Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2071

LAURENCE JOHNSON (1845-1893) A manual of the medical botany of North America. William Wood 1884 xi [1] 292 pp., 9 col. plates (front.), 160 illus. 22.9 cm.

Born in Wayne County New York, Johnson was educated at Falley Seminary in Fulton, taught for a year, and then joined the Union Army. He served chiefly with the artillery, was eventually commissioned a first lieutenant and resigned from the service in 1865. He entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he graduated in 1868 and began private practice in New York City. He had time while building his practice to accept a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Design because of his outstanding artistic talent. Johnson maintained staff privileges and was visiting physician to several New York hospitals, later serving as lecturer on medical botany and professor of clinical medicine at the medical school of the University of the City of New York. Johnson was a member of the committee that revised the United States pharmacopoeia (see No. 1879) in 1880 and he published his own formulary the following year. The present work is Johnson's best known and most popular book. Written specifically as a textbook, it came into wide use and is illustrated with his own drawings.

See Related Record(s): 1879

Cited references: Cushing J100

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