Benjamin Smith Barton

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Benjamin Smith Barton , born the February 10th 1766 with Lancaster (Pennsylvania) and dead the December 19th 1815 with New York, is a American Botaniste .

Barton begins its studies of medicine to Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) until in 1786, date on which it arrives at the university of Edinburgh then at that of Göttingen. After having obtained its title doctor in 1789 in the latter, it turns over to the university of Philadelphia where it teaches botany and the Natural history.

Barton is famous to have published in 1803 the Elements off botany, or Outlines off the natural history off vegetables , the first American handbook of botany.

Of 1798 - 1804, it publishes a work on the plants with medical use ( Essay toward has Materia Medica off the United States ).

It is also interested in the Anatomie and with the Zoologie, thus it publishes in 1796 a test on the capacity of fascination which would exert the Serpent S, Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty Which Has been Ascribed to the Rattle-Snake ). Barton also studies biology, the culture and the history of the Amerindian S. In 1803, it makes appear a comparative study of Linguistique, Etymology off Certain English Words and one Their Affinity to Words in the Languages off Different European, Asiatic and American (Indian) Nations and a test on the origin of the first American people, New Views off the Origin off the Tribes and Nations off America (1798). He is the editor of the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (of 1804 with 1809), one of the old scientific publications of the the United States.

Parallel to its research, Barton continues its medical practice at the hospital of Pennsylvania.

He dies of Tuberculose in New York City in 1815.