John Uri Lloyd

John Uri Lloyd was a pharmacist, scientist, manufacturer and novelist. His mostimportant contributions were in the field of pharmacy and pharmacognosy. He was inlarge part responsible for the development and acceptance of an American materiamedica. Lloyd in his spare time was also a novelist. His first work of fiction, Etidorpha, was ofthe Jules Verne genre, a semi-science fiction work incorporating philosophical conceptswedded to unorthodox theories of science. The other major novels of Lloyd were withone exception based upon his experiences growing up in Northern Kentucky. His novelsare more valuable as historical sketches of the region than as literary efforts, but are stillentertaining.