Joseph Carson (born April 19, 1808, Philadelphia; died December 30, 1876) was a United States physician and medical botanist.
Joseph Carson (born April 19, 1808, Philadelphia; died December 30, 1876) was a United States physician and medical botanist.
He was privately schooled in Philadelphia, [1] graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1826, and from the Medical School of the University in 1830. [2] He began a practice in 1832, which emphasized obstetrics. He studied botany throughout his life. [1] From 1836 to 1850, he was professor of materia medica in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He held a similar chair in the University of Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1876. In 1870 he was president of the national convention for the revision of the United States Pharmacopeia. [2] He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1844. [3]
For a number of years he was an associate editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy. He edited Jonathan Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica (1843; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1845) and J. Forbes Royle's Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1847); [2] he published Illustrations of Medical Botany (1847) to which he contributed many drawings. [1] The standard author abbreviation Carson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [4]
He married Mary Goddard in 1841 and Mary Hollingsworth in 1848. With the latter he had four children. [1]
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