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The death of medical men is an occurrence which eminently demands our attention, for it speaks to us of our science, and of ourselves. It reminds us, that we, in turn, are to become victims of the incompetency of our own art.

Jacob Bigelow

Jacob Bigelow

Jacob Bigelow

Born: February 27, 1787

Died: January 10, 1879 (aged 91)

Bio: Jacob Bigelow was an American physician and botanist. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow.

Known for:

American medical botany (1817)
Elements of technology
A treatise on the materia medica

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