CLASSIC WORKS in HERBAL MEDICINE Michael Moore Southwest School of Botanical Medicine JOHN URI LLOYD John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) founded Lloyd Brothers Pharmacy in Cincinnati, and was responsible for the formulation of a body of plant extracts called Specific Medicines (following the recommendations of Scudder). The pharmacy closed in the early 1960's, but his legacy is still present as the Lloyd Library, (the largest library of medical plant books in the world), the Lloyd Extractor, his pioneering work in colloidal chemistry, and several bestselling works of fiction, including "Stringtown on the Pike and the mystical "Etidorhpa". Although perhaps the most famous figure in pharmacy in his day (he was the de facto editor of the first National Formulary and twice the president of the American Pharmaceutical Association), he refused to abandon his love for plant medicine, the Eclectic Movement, and Alchemy. Without formal training, and serving 10 years in self-imposed apprenticeship, he clashed his whole life with the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the "regulars" who ran American pharmacy...those with degrees from Harvard and Yale...and who, he felt, helped diminish the traditional role of the pharmacist from one who PREPARED medicines (and was partner with the physician) to its present status: the pharmacist as simply the legal dispenser of products made by pharmaceutical manufacturers. His enemies prevailed, and his name appears in virtually no histories of American Pharmacy. He was right, of course. ELIXIRS AND FLAVORING EXTRACTS: THEIR HISTORY, FORMULAE, & METHODS OF PREPARATION, BY JOHN URI LLOYD (1892) Text File (343K) The text (without images, 2 pages of facsimiles and a bit of Arabic and Greek) but with a TOC listing the 300 or so formulae. Acrobat File (725K) Completely bookmarked, with the facsimiles and some photographs of LLoyd as a youth and an 80-year-old that I added. QUANTITY VERSUS QUALITY A series of articles from 1914 written by Lloyd (reprinted by him in 1932) explaining the differences between WHOLE plant preparations and the refined substances used in medicine. Text File (88K) Acrobat File (100K) PLANT PHARMACY (from the American Journal of Pharmacy, April, 1922) This brief essay by Lloyd deals with the practical, philosophic and spiritual aspects of the use of whole plants in pharmacy...by 1922 a dead issue to all but a few readers...akin to the current essays on medical ethics written by Emeriti-types for JAMA, NEJofM and Lancet (that nobody reads either) Text File (20K) OTTO MAUSERT, ND Mausert, was a German Naturopath, a teutonic variation of the more charismatic aspects of the Eclectic and Physiomedicalism populist medical movements of the 19th and early 20th century in North America. This evolved into current Naturopathy, the only surviving face of American Medical Vitalism. He practiced in the San Francisco area before WWII and his formulas were widely sold and used throughout the U.S. in the years before the current "Herbal Rennaisance" that allegedly started in the 1970s (I was there then...and didn't even notice it). These formulas were sold for years by the original owners of Nature's Herb Company on Ellis Street in San Francisco, Herb Products (North Hollywood) and Wide World of Herbs (Montreal). Robust, sometimes even hair-raising, these old-timey formulas still work (even though Mausert's explanations often bordered on overt pseudo-science and genial quackery) MAUSERT'S FORMULAS (1932) Text File (100K) Acrobat File (315K) Back to the Home Page