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History of the Vegetable Drugs of the Pharmacopeia of the United States (Classic Reprint)
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Together with his brother, Mr. C. G. Lloyd, the writer began, in 1884, a quarterly publication entitled Drugs and Medicines of North A merica, with the object of considering, consecutively, the American remedial agents then in use by members of the various professions of medicine in A merica. It was planned to give the historical record of every American medicinal plant, as well as its pharmaceutical preparations, whether Pharmacopeial or otherwise. The literature on the subject being largely A mericana, the authors believed that they were in a position to do passable justice to the subject, inasmuch as they had, for a number of years, given much study in that direction. This publication was kindly received by the medical and pharmaceutical professions of A merica, as well as by scientists throughout the world. However, notwithstanding the cordial reception of the work, its authors became convinced that, before going further in this direction, much reference literature not then at their command should be provided. Owing to this fact, and to the increasing cares of business, and notwithstanding the additions that were continually being made to their libraries, the publication was reluctantly suspended with Number 5of Volume II, which appeared in June, 1887. With the hope of again resuming the work thus temporarily (as it was hoped) laid aside, even more persistent efforts were made to collect books, pamphlets, essays, travelers narratives, and other literature concerning the American materia medica, as well as foreign publications, botanical and otherwise, connected with the discovery, introduction, or uses of medicinal plants generally. But now, when the literature on the subject is at last passably satisfactory, the authors comprehend that it is too late for them to hope to resume, much less complete, a work after the nature and plan of Drugs and Medicines
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Elixirs And Flavoring Extracts: Their History, Formulae, And Methods Of Preparation
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Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson, and a History of the Thomsonian Materia Medica, as Shown in "The new Guide to Health," (1835), and the ... the Famous Letters of Professor Benjamin
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Warwick of the Knobs: A Story of Stringtown County, Kentucky (Classic Reprint)
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Red Head: Illustrations and Decorations by Reginald B.Birch 1903
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John Uri Lloyd was an American pharmacist, plant chemist, drug manufacturer, and novelist.
Background
John Uri Lloyd was born on April 19, 1849 in North Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, United States, the eldest in a family of four sons of Nelson Marvin and Sophia (Webster) Lloyd. His great-great-grandfather John Lloyd had come from Wales and settled in America about 1770; the Webster lineage can be traced to Governor John Webster of Connecticut, one of the original settlers of Hartford. Lloyd's parents, both of them graduates of Lima College, Lima, New York, were teachers. His father was also a mathematician and a surveyor. In 1853 he contracted to survey for a bridge across the Ohio River and eventually brought his family to Petersburg, Kentucky. Stranded in this river town when the financial panic halted the enterprise, the Lloyds opened a one-room school in their home and taught subsequently in Burlington and Florence, Kentucky. Mrs. Lloyd in her spare time wrote short stories and verse for literary and religious magazines.
Education
Young Lloyd and his brothers did not attend high school or college, their only instruction coming from their parents. He received six honorary degrees.
Career
The Lloyd family was adept in the preparation of the vegetable remedies advocated by the unorthodox medical practitioner Samuel Thomson. Lloyd suffered from asthma as a youth, but when he was fourteen he received from his grandfather John Lloyd a sample of lobelia compound which cured him. Deciding then and there, with his father's encouragement, to become a pharmacist, he was apprenticed to a Cincinnati druggist.
Two years later he began a second such apprenticeship, to George Egers. Egers was a scholar, a linguist, and a chemist, and Lloyd learned much from this connection. He also began a long friendship with the famous Eclectic physician Dr. John King, a disciple of Dr. Wooster Beach. The Eclectics advocated the use of plant extracts in treating patients, and their methods of kindly medication, as opposed to the heroic remedies then still in use, was a decisive factor in uniting Lloyd with their cause. Thereafter he was in the forefront of the struggle to obtain recognition for Eclectic medicine.
In 1871 Lloyd left Egers and took a position with the Cincinnati drug manufacturing firm of Merrell & Thorpe, where he was presently joined by his brothers Nelson Ashley and Curtis Gates. After several business changes, the firm became in 1885 the sole property of the Lloyds and was renamed Lloyd Brothers. Producing drugs at first for the exclusive use of the Eclectics, the firm prospered. It continued in existence until the death of John Uri Lloyd, who outlived his brothers, in 1936.
Early in the twentieth century, believing that a poorly prepared mustard plaster had led to the death of one of his brothers in childhood, Lloyd threw his efforts into the campaign against adulteration in medicines led by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley which culminated in the national Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Lloyd's first scientific writing was a paper on Stillingia, a genus of herbs, which Dr. King published in the Eclectic Medical Journal in 1870. He experimented and wrote incessantly. Whenever he needed new apparatus for his work he invented it; the United States Patent Office has fifteen inventions in his name. The most famous is his "cold-still, " which cooked extracts of herbs at temperatures lower than any tried before and yet maintained their therapeutic value.
In medicine he originated 379 so-called "specifics" and Lloyd's Reagent. His Elixirs (1883), a collection of pharmaceutical formulas, was one of two forerunners of the American Pharmaceutical Association's later standard publication, the National Formulary. With his brother Curtis he wrote a two-volume work, Drugs and Medicines of North America (1884 - 1887). His Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and Preparations appeared in 1921 and was reprinted in 1929.
Lloyd's work in plant chemistry as applied to medicine was particularly significant. He did important work in colloidal chemistry, in alkaloids, in glucosids and proximate principles, in precipitates in fluid extracts, and in phenomena of capillarity. His Chemistry of Medicines, first published in 1881, reached eight editions by 1887. Lloyd was a member of the revision committee of the United States Pharmacopeia in 1877 and co-editor, with John King, of the American Dispensatory, 1886-1895 (15th to 17th editions), and, with Harvey Wickes Felter, of King's American Dispensatory, 1898-1909 (18th and 19th editions).
He served as president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 1887-1888. From 1896 to 1905 he was president of the National Eclectic Medical Association and of the Eclectic Medical Institute (in 1910 renamed the Eclectic Medical College) in Cincinnati. For many years (1878 - 1907) he was professor of chemistry at the latter institution, and from 1883 to 1887 he taught pharmacy at the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy (later affiliated with the University of Cincinnati).
In his leisure time Lloyd wrote novels. The first, Etidorhpa; or The End of Earth (1895), went through eighteen editions and was translated into seven languages. An occult story of a trip through the center of the earth, it foreshadowed the discoveries of argon and helium in the earth's atmosphere, X rays, and atomic action. Seven other novels appeared at intervals down to 1934, most of them, like the popular Stringtown on the Pike (1900), reflecting his interest in the folklore of northern Kentucky.
Early in his career Lloyd began a collection of books which grew eventually into the notable Lloyd Library of Botany and Pharmacy in Cincinnati. He established many scholarships and fellowships in various universities, all anonymously. Lloyd died of pneumonia after a fall while visiting in Van Nuys, California. His ashes were buried in Hopeful Cemetery near Florence, Kentucky.
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Personality
Lloyd was small of stature, with fair skin, dark hair, and blue eyes. His manner was mild, but firm. Never forgetting that he was once poor, he gave liberally to worthy causes and individuals.
Connections
On December 27, 1876, Lloyd married Adelaide Meader, who died ten days after their wedding. On June 10, 1880, he married Emma Rouse of Crittenden, Kentucky, by whom he had three children, John Thomas, Annie, and Dorothy.