William Woodville
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish botanist (1752-1805)
ScientistsLived 1752 to 1805 · aged 53
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William Woodville was an English physician and botanist. Convinced by the work of Edward Jenner, he was among the first to promote vaccination.
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William Woodville was an English physician and botanist. Convinced by the work of Edward Jenner, he was among the first to promote vaccination. His four volume book on medical botany published between 1790 and 1794 with 300 illustrations of medicinal plants by James Sowerby was an important reference work for physicians in the nineteenth century with a second edition in 1810 followed by a revision in 1832 by William Jackson Hooker and George Spratt.
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deceased
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Lived 1752 to 1805 · aged 53
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