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Frontispiece to Hosack's Hortus Elginensis (1811).

Featured on PDR in the essay Flower Power: Hamilton’s Doctor and the Healing Power of Nature

Rebecca Rego Barry on David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and death), and creator of one of the first botanical gardens in the United States, home to thousands of species which he used for his pioneering medical research.

Elgin Botanic Garden

Date

1811

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Hortus Elginensis


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