William Craig (botanist)
Dr William Craig FRSE FRCSE (1832–1922) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He was an expert on jaborandi (an appetite suppressant).[1] He served as President of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. His collections and studies were largely focussed upon Perthshire in central Scotland.[2]
Life
He was born in Avondale, South Lanarkshire on 28 March 1832 the son of John Craig a farmer at High Ploughland.[3]
He originally studied Arts and Divinity at Glasgow University, then in later life studied Medicine and more pharmaceutical type subjects, graduating MB CM at Edinburgh University in 1868. He qualified as a doctor (MD) in 1870.
He lectured on Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Minto House on Chambers Street, Edinburgh and at the Extra-Mural Medical School at Surgeon's Hall.
In 1875 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Hutton Balfour, Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, Alexander Dickson and Thomas Alexander Goldie Balfour. In 1878 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.[4]
He died at home, 71 Bruntsfield Place in south-west Edinburgh on 3 February 1922, aged 89.
Publications
See[5]
- Notes on Jaborandi (Oliver & Boyd 1876)
- Changed Aloin and the Resin of Aloes (1875)
- Plant Ecology and Diversity: Notes on the Drug called Jaborandi (1875)
References
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, by Timothy F Allen
- ↑ http://herbariaunited.org/collector/14821/
- ↑ Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1873-2002
- ↑ Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1873-2002
- ↑ http://wellcomelibrary.org/player/b21480102#?asi=0&ai=0