> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 574](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333713) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9600-1) LSID 9600-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21608841) QID Q21608841 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shultz \[Schultz\], Benjamin (1772-1814), American physician; Dr. med. Univ. Pennsylvania 1795; engaged in medicinal experimentation on a balsam farm, in Hereford Twp., Berks Co. (Northampton Co.), Pa. until ca. 1806; subsequently at or near Middelberg, Snyder Co., Pa. **Abbreviated name**: *Shultz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shultz*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography ME 2: 15, 3: 359. #### Biofile - Berky, A.S., An account of Dr. Benjamin Schultz of Pennsylvania, physician, botanist and philosopher 1772-1814. The Schwenkfelder Libr., Pennsburg. Pa. 1952, 27 p. - Brecht, S.K., ed., Genealogical record of the Schwenkfelder families 940-942. 1923 (biogr. details) (reference courtesy of Claire Conway, Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.). #### Eponymy *Shultzia* Rafinesque (1808, *nom. rej.*). ### Publications ##### n.11.927. Phytolacca decandra **Title** An inaugural botanico-medical dissertation on the *Phytolacca decandra* of Linnaeus... Philadelphia (printed by Thomas Dobson...) 1795. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Phytolacca dec*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1795 (submitted for Dr. med. 21 Mai 1795), frontisp. (uncol. copp. William Bartram), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-55. *Copies*: HU, NY, PH, Schwenkfelder Hist. Libr., Pennsburg, Pa.(2). – See HU 740. – Dedicated to Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), Amer. philos. soc. (epon.: *Wistaria*) and to Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815).