Excerpt from A Lecture, Delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia: March 30, 1825 Alexander garden, M D. A scientific physician of South Carolina. In 1764, he published an account of the medicinal virtues of the pinkroot, and gave a botanical description of the plant. He devoted much time to the study of natural history, and particularly to botany, and made various communications on these subjects to his friends in Europe. In compliment to him, the greatest botanist of the age gave the name of Gardenia to one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs in the world. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Upsal. É-ramay's Review of Med. 42. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.