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Jacob Bigelow

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American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879)

Born 1786
Died 1879

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  • Cover of: The useful arts, considered in connexion with the applications ofscience.

    First published in 1840 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings ...

    First published in 1817 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Florula bostoniensis.: A collection of plants of Boston and its vicinity, with their generic and specific characters, principal synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks.

    Cover of edition florulabostonien1814bige Cover of edition florulabostonie00bige First published in 1814 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: American medical botany: being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings.

    First published in 1817 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Eolopoesis.: American rejected addresses.

    Cover of edition eolopoesisameric00bigeiala Cover of edition eolopoesisameri00biggoog First published in 1855 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: An address on the limits of education: read before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 16, 1865

    First published in 1865 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Modern inquiries: classical, professional, and miscellaneous.

    Cover of edition moderninquiries02bigegoog First published in 1867 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: The wars of the gulls: an historical romance in three chapters; chap. I, Shewing how and why and with whom the gulls went to war: chap. II, Shewing how the gulls make the deep to boil like a pot: chap. III, Shewing how a certain doughty general of the gulls goes forth to play the game of hull-gull in Upper Canada.

    Cover of edition cihm_32506 First published in 1812 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: The Boston book. Being specimens of metropolitan literature

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  • Cover of: Some account of the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

    First published in 1816 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A treatise on the materia medica, intended as a sequel to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States: being an account of the origin, qualities and medical uses of the articles and compounds, which constitute that work, with their modes of prescription and administration.

    First published in 1822 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A discourse on self-limited diseases: Delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, at their annual meeting, May 27, 1835.

    First published in 1835 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Nature in disease: illustrated in various discourses and essays. To which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects.

    First published in 1854 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A poem on professional life: delivered by appointment of the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, at their anniversary, August 29, 1811

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  • Cover of: Elements of Technology: Taken Chiefly from a Course of Lectures Delivered at Cambridge, on the Application of the Sciences to the Useful Arts

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  • Cover of: Elements of technology: taken chiefly from a course of lectures delivered at Cambridge, on the application of the sciences to the useful arts. Now published for the use of seminaries and students.

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  • Cover of: The Useful Arts, Vol. II: considered in connexion with the applications of science: with numerous engravings

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  • Cover of: Brief expositions of rational medicine: to which is prefixed The Paradise of doctors, a fable

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  • Cover of: Nature in disease, illustrated in various discourses and essays.: To which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects.

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We need a photo of Jacob Bigelow

American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879)

Born 1786
Died 1879

Subjects

Medicine, Industrial arts, Technology, Education, Botany, Industrial arts., Classical education, History, Materia Medica, Essays, Fuel, Materia medica, Medical Botany, Medicinal Plants, Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown and Cambridge, Mass.), Parodies, Pathology, Plants, Testing, American literature, Arsenic, Cemeteries, Chemistry, Flora, Gift books

Places

Massachusetts, Boston, United States, Mount Auburn Cemetery, White Mountains, White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)

People

Marcus Bull (1787-1851), Marcus Bull

Time

War of 1812

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Alternative names

  • Jacob 1787-1879. [from old cat Bigelow
  • Jacob 1786-1879 Bigelow
  • Bigelow Jacob

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August 15, 2022 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
August 15, 2022 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import