Jacob Bigelow

Jacob Bigelow ( born February 7, 1787 Sudbury, Massachusetts; † 10 January 1879 in Boston) was an American physician and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Bigelow ".

Bigelow studied at Harvard University and worked from 1810 in Boston. As a botanist, he quickly became known; he was among others to Sir JE Smith, Schrader and De Candolle in contact. In 1820 he was one of five persons who should make the American Pharmacopoeia, the first compilation of the North American medicinal plants, and was a landmark in the establishment of the medical nomenclature in the English language.

Bigelow founded the first park cemetery in the United States, Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston, should be the model for all other park cemeteries of the country and its architectural elements were designed by Bigelow.

He worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where since 1856 a bust of him. From 1815 to 1855 he was professor of materia medica at Harvard University, from 1816 to 1827 he had the Rumford Professorship held there. From his lectures the Elements of Technology emerged, which were launched in 1840 in two volumes under the title of Useful Arts Considered in Connection With the Applications of Science again.

For many years he was the president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, besides, he was 1847-1863 president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His particular interest was the education of the students. Besides reference books and articles, he also wrote poetry. His Florula bostoniensis was three decades as the standard work on the flora of New England.

The American Medical Botany was the first book published in the U.S. with color illustrations, developed its own aquatint process for the Bigelow.

Bigelow was an ardent supporter of technological utopians John A. Etzler and involved many suggestions from its main plant Paradise.

Works

  • Florula bostoniensis (1814; expanded editions in 1824 and 1840)
  • American Medical Botany (1817-1820)
  • Elements of Technology (1829 )
  • Nature in Disease (1854 )
  • Eolopoesis (1855 )
  • History of Mount Auburn ( 1860)
  • On the Limits of Education ( 1865)
  • A Brief Exposition of Rational Medicine (1867 )
  • The Paradise of Doctors, a Fable (1867 )
  • Modern Inquiries (1867 )
  • Remarks on Classical Studies (1867 )
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