The John Uri Lloyd House in Cincinnati was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.It ran to eighteen editions and was translated into seven languages. When it was printed commercially, illustrations by J. It was part of what are called the genre of " Hollow Earth" novels, based on a journey to the interior of the earth and another world. His most popular and influential work was Etidorhpa (1895), a scientific allegory that some consider a work of science fiction. Lloyd combined his interests by writing a series of local description novels about the northern Kentucky area. In 2013, the American company Eli Lilly and Company bought Hoechst AG. In 1960, the German pharmaceutical manufacturer Hoechst AG purchased the operations. Penick bought the Lloyd Brothers firm in 1938. Lloyd died on April 9, 1936, at the home of his daughter in Van Nuys, California. The movement led to the founding of associated medical schools, including the Eclectic Medical Institute, first located in Worthington in 1833, which later moved to Cincinnati where it had students from 1845 to 1939. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the eclectic medicine movement was popular, which incorporated the use of medical botany. Today it is considered by many to house the finest collections in the world devoted to eclectic medicine, medical botany and pharmacy. In 1919, Lloyd and his two brothers established trusts to fund the Lloyd Library and Museum. John Lloyd's innovations include a "cold still" for plant extractions and the first buffered alkaloid (made with hydrous aluminium silicate), called alcresta.ĭrawing of John Uri Lloyd by Manuel Rosenberg During 1886 the brothers bought the Merrell and Thorpe Company, renaming it Lloyd Brothers, Pharmacists, Inc. His younger brothers Nelson Ashley Lloyd (1851–1926) and Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859–1926) also became chemists. Gordon when he was 14 years old and later apprenticed with George Eger. Lloyd took an apprenticeship with the chemist William J.M.
His family relocated to Florence and Petersburg in northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1853. John Uri Lloyd was born in upstate New York to teachers Sophia Webster and Nelson Marvin Lloyd. Translated into seven languages, it was widely read in Europe as well as the United States.
First distributed privately, it was later printed in eighteen editions. His most popular novel was the science fiction or allegorical Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey (1895), illustrated by J. He also wrote novels set in northern Kentucky. John Uri Lloyd (Apin West Bloomfield, New York – April 9, 1936) was an American pharmacist and leader of the eclectic medicine movement who was influential in the development of pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, economic botany, and herbalism.
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