Henri Leclerc
French physician
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origin of phytotherapy
- In phytotherapy: History of phytotherapy
…phytotherapy originated with French physician Henri Leclerc, who first used the term in 1913 and who published various editions of the Précis de phytothérapie (“Handbook of Phytotherapy”), the first in 1922. Phytotherapy entered the English language with its common definition in 1934, having been introduced by Eric Frederick William Powell,…
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