Notes of a course of lectures on materia medica delivered in 1827 by Francis Boot 1827-1831
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Boott, Francis, 1792-1863
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Francis Boott received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1810. After a three-year stay in England (1811-1814), Boott returned to Boston and became interested in collecting New England plants. He was part of a group that made botanical explorations of New England mountains in 1816. Boott left again for England in 1820 and took up the study of medicine, first in London and then in Edinburgh, where he received an M.D. in 1824. He practiced medicine in London for a number of years and also lecture...
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Francis Boott, physician and botanist, was born in Boston, Mass., of British parents. He was educated at Harvard, but in 1820 he turned to the study of medicine, first in London under the tutelage of Dr John Armstrong and then in Edinburgh (M.D. 1824). In 1825 he returned to London, where he practised medicine until 1832, before retiring early in order to pursue his own scientific and literary interests. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1819 and was its Secretary, 1832-1839, and Trea...
