Harvey Wickes Felter (1865–1927) was an

eclectic medicine Eclectic medicine was a branch of American medicine that 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. The term was coined by ...

doctor and author of ''

Eclectic Materia Medica ''Eclectic Materia Medica'' is a materia medica written by the eclectic medicine doctor Harvey Wickes Felter (co-author with John Uri Lloyd of King's American Dispensatory). This was the last, articulate, but in the end, futile attempt to stem the ...

''. He was co-author, with

John Uri Lloyd John Uri Lloyd (April 19, 1849 – April 9, 1936) was an American pharmacist and leader of the eclectic medicine movement who was influential in the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism.Michael A. Flannery, ' ...

, of ''

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 ...

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Works

* ''Biographies of John King, Andrew Jackson Howe, and John Milton Scudder : accompanied by many valuable and historical portraits and other illustrations'' . Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio 191
Digital edition
by the

University and State Library Düsseldorf The University and State Library Düsseldorf (german: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, abbreviated ULB Düsseldorf) is a central service institution of Heinrich Heine University. Along with Bonn and Münster, it is also one of th ...

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Henriette Kress Henriette Kress (born 1963) is a Finnish herbalist. Early life Kress was born in Germany and is of German descent. She moved to Finland with her family when she was eleven years old. Kress is a Swedish-speaking Finn The Swedish-speaking p ...

's Herbal website.
''The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics''
by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D. (1922) Bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) files only from Michael Moore's website. Herbalists 1865 births 1927 deaths {{US-med-bio-stub