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"Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine" is a branch of American medicine which makes use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, popular in the latter half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.

A few scholars of "Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine" include Howard Kelly, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and Walter Burrage.

Lloyd Library and Museum, New York Academy of Medicine, and Physiomedicalism are a few themes of "Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine".

Why study "Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine"? To understand historical models for how botany and medicine can work together, and to understand how cultures such as Native Americans used medicinal plants.