Joseph Carson (pharmacist)
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Joseph Carson (born April 19, 1808, Philadelphia; died December 30, 1876) was a United States physician and medical botanist.
Biography
He was privately schooled in Philadelphia,[1] graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1826, and from the Medical School of the University in 1830.[2] He began a practice in 1832, which emphasized obstetrics. He studied botany throughout his life.[1] From 1836 to 1850, he was professor of materia medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He held a similar chair in the University of Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1876. In 1870 he was president of the national convention for the revision of the United States Pharmacopeia.[2]
Works
For a number of years he was an associate editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy. He edited Jonathan Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica (1843; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1845) and J. Forbes Royle's Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1847);[2] he published Illustrations of Medical Botany (1847) to which he contributed many drawings.[1] The standard author abbreviation Carson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
Family
He married Mary Goddard in 1841 and Sarah Hollingsworth in 1848. With the latter he had four children.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Francis Randolph Packard (1929). "Carson, Joseph". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ a b c Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Carson.
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