John Uri Lloyd

John Uri Lloyd
Born(1849-04-19)April 19, 1849
DiedApril 9, 1936(1936-04-09) (aged 86)
Resting placeFlorence, Kentucky, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
RelativesCurtis Gates Lloyd (brother)
Scientific career
Fields

John Uri Lloyd (April 19, 1849 in West Bloomfield, New York[1] – 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.[2]

He also wrote novels set in northern Kentucky. His most popular novel was the science fiction or allegorical Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey (1895), illustrated by J. Augustus Knapp. First distributed privately, it was later printed in eighteen editions. Translated into seven languages, it was widely read in Europe as well as the United States.

  1. ^ LLOYD, John Uri in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition); p. 691; via archive.org
  2. ^ Michael A. Flannery, John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8093-2167-X