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who was the author of the influential American Materia Medica, therapeutics, and pharmacognosy in 1919. Ellingwood was an active Chicago physician with many years experience, and an acknowledged expert in

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medicine. He was a vocal advocate of women physicians, and edited ''Ellingwood's Therapeutist'' for many years. His brand of Eclectic Medicine differed from the more subdued Cincinnati style as mentored by Scudder, Lloyd, Fyfe, and Felter. The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and

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s tend to work on more than one system. The book had been substantially lost until it was scanned by herbalist

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Works

* ''American Materia medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy : developing the latest acquired Knowledge of Drugs, and especially of the direct Action of single Drugs upon exact Conditions of Disease, with especial Reference to the Therapeu tics of the Plant Drugs of the Plant Drugs of the Americas''. – Evanston

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: Ellinwood's Therapeutist, 1919
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* ''A systematic Treatise on Materia medica and Therapeutics : with Reference to the most direct Action of Drugs''. – Chicago : Chicago Medical Pr., 1902
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* ''A Synopsis of Medical Chemistry''. – Chicago Veterinary College., 1889.

References

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