| Jacob Bigelow  Born: 27-Feb-1786
Birthplace: Sudbury, MA
Died: 10-Jan-1879
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Gender: Male
Religion: Congregationalist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Botanist, Doctor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: American Medical Botany Wife: Mary Scollay (m. 1817)
University: BA, Harvard University (1806)
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania (1810)
Professor: Materia Medica, Harvard Medical School (1815-55)
Professor: Rumford Professor, Harvard University (1816-27)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences President (1847-63)
Author of books:
Flora Bostoniensis (1814, botany)
American Medical Botany (1817-20, botany, 3 vols.)
Treatise on the Materia Medica (1822)
Elements of Technology (1829)
Discourse on Self-limited Diseases (1835)
Eolopoesis, American Rejected Addresses (1855, poetry, anonymous)
Brief Expositions of Rational Medicine (1858)
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