''Eclectic Materia Medica'' is a materia medica written by the

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Harvey Wickes Felter Harvey Wickes Felter (1865–1927) was an eclectic medicine doctor and author of ''Eclectic Materia Medica''. He was co-author, with John Uri Lloyd, of ''King's American Dispensatory''. Works * ''Biographies of John King, Andrew Jackson Howe, an ...

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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, ' ...

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 ...

). This was the last, articulate, but in the end, futile attempt to stem the tide of Standard Practice Medicine, the antithesis of the model of the rural primary care "

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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 ...

. http://www.swsbm.com/FelterMM/Felters.html Michael Moore on Felter's Materia Medica The herbal portions of the Materia Medica can be found at the websites below, but the book also contained alkaloids, salts, chemicals, injected compounds and other products well-outside of the herbal realm.

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''Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica''
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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 po ...

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''The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics''
by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D. (1922) Bookmarked Acrobat (.pdf) files only from Michael Moore's website. 1898 non-fiction books 1922 non-fiction books Health and wellness books Eclectic medicine {{med-book-stub