> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 448](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066788) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11859-1) LSID 11859-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167767) QID Q6167767 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Woodville, William (1752-1805), British physician and botanist; studied at Edinburgh Univ., M.D. 1775; practicing physician at Papcastle and Denbigh, Scotland; from 1782 in London as physician to the Middlesex dispensary; physician to the smallpox and inoculation hospitals at St. Pancras 1791-1805. **Abbreviated name**: *Woodv.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Woodv.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 518; BB p. 334-335; BM 5: 2355; Bossert p. 442; Desmond p. 675-676 (d. 26 Mar 1905); DNB 62: 417 (21: 888-889); Dryander 3: 401; DU 334; GF p. 81; Henrey 2: 748 \[index\]; Herder p. p. 414; Hortus 3: 1207; HU 2(1): clxii, 2(2): no. 716, 3: no. 3, 1521-1524; Jackson p. 201; NI 2183; Plesch p. 463; PR 10398, ed. 1: 11358, 11578; Rehder 3: 55; SO 743, 745; Sotheby 823, 824; TL-1/1046 (H. Woodville); TL-2/8755 (H. Woodvillc; see W.J. Hooker, J. Sowerby); Tucker 1: 753-754. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 260: 800. 1965. - Gibbs, W., Dedicated, a novel, 1960 (fiction: also as Two doctors, a novel, 1959). - Hoeffer, ed., Nouv. biogr. gén. 46: 830. 1866. - Munk, W., Roll R. Coll. Physicians London ed. 2. 2: 345. 1878. - Redgrove, H.S., Gard. Chron. 97: 306-307. 1935 (modern evaluation). - Thornton, R.J., Phil. bot. 3: *pl. 23.* 1806 (portr.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 99. 1903. #### Composite works Some articles on medical botany in Rees, *Cycl*. (TL-2/8755), fide BM by "H. Woodville", are possibly by William Woodville (see also Mabberley, Taxon 32: 80. 1983). #### Eponymy *Woodvillea* A.P. de Candolle (1836). ### Publications ##### n.18.272. Medical botany **Title** *Medical botany*, containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed... London (printed and sold for the author, by James Phillips,...) 1790-1795, 3 vols. and suppl. Qu. (in 2-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Med. bot.* **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1790-1794, 3 vols. and suppl. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, MICH, NY, USDA. – Published in "numbers" (fascicles). Plates dated. (pl. 1: 1 Jan 1790; pl. 271-274 suppl.: 1 Jan 1795. – For a detailed analytical bibliographic analysis see HU 716, q.v. for many further details. Plates by "Mr \[James\] Sowerby" fide 1: vi. *1*: 1 Jan 1790-1 Jan 1791, p. \[i\]-xiv, 1-182, \[i-ii, index\], *pl*. \[*1*\]-*65* (five to a number) (coll. copp.). *2*: 1 Feb 1791-1 Mar 1792, p. \[i\]-xii, 183-368, \[i-ii, index\], *pl. 66-135.* *3*: 1 Apr 1792-1 Jan 1793, p. \[i-viii\], 369-578, \[i\]-vii, \[v\]-xii, *pl. 136-210* (*pl. 179* as "*178*") *Supplement*: 1 Jan 1794-1 Jan 1795, p. \[i-iv\], 1-169, \[170-180\], *pl. 211-274* (*pl. 240* as *230, 273* as "*274*"). *Ed. 2*: 1810, 4 vols. *Copies*: HH (4 vols.), NY (2 vols.). Second edition... London (printed and sold by William Phillips,...) 1810. Qu. *1*: 1810, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-188, *pl. 1-70.* *2*: 1810, p. \[i-iii\], \[189\]-392, *pl. 71-111, 113-141.* *3*: 1810, p. \[i-iii\], \[393\]-504, 503\*-504\*, 505-632, *pl. 142-181, 181*\*, *182-222*. *4*: 1810, p. \[i-ii\], 633-824, \[1-32\], *pl. 223-274. Ed. 3*: 1832, 5 vols. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, USDA. – Third edition, in which thirty-nine new plants have been introduced. The botanical descriptions arranged and corrected by Dr. William Jackson Hooker,... who has added an index following the arrangement of Jussieu. The new medico-botanical portion supplied by G. Spratt, Esq. author of the Flora medica,... in five volumes... London (published by John Bohn, ...) 1832. Qu. (in 2-s). *1*: 1832, p. \[i-vii\], \[1\]-188, *pl. 1-70* (col.). *2*: 1832, p. \[i-iii\], \[189\]-392, *pl. 71-111, 113-141.* *3*: 1832, p. \[i-iii\], \[393\]-504, 503\*-504\*, 505-632, *pl. 142-181, 181*\*, *182-222*. *4*: 1832, p. \[1\], 631-824, \[1-32, indexes\], *pl. 223-274.* *5*: 1832 (p. \[v\]: 1 Jun 1832), p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-157, \[i-xv\], *36 pl*. (col.; by G. Spratt).