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of such value and interest as to warrant the issuance by 

 its author of a revised edition in 1869. 



Dr. Porcher, with his two brothers, served throug-h- 

 out the War Between the States. He was surgeon to 

 the Holcombe Legion, to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk 

 harbor, and to the South Carolina Hospital at Peters- 

 burg, Va. His contributions on medical subjects to 

 medical publications have been numerous and valu- 

 able. Articles from his pen appeared in "The Amer- 

 ican Journal of the Medical Sciences," ''The Charleston 

 Medical Journal and Review" and other journals North 

 and South. Some of his most important contributions 

 were upon yellow fever, diseases of the heart, and on 

 the medical and edible properties of cryptogamic 

 plants and on gastric remittent fevers. 



Dr. Porcher was president of the South Carolina Med- 

 ical Association, of the Medical Society of South Caro- 

 lina, and vice-president of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation. He was a member of the American committee 

 of the World's International Medical Congress, and 

 also at the meeting in Rome, Italy, 1893. He was also 

 president of the section on General Medicine, Pan- 

 American Congress in 1892 ; member of the Association 

 of American Physicians, and an Associate Fellow of 

 the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. The degree 

 of LL. D. was at the commencement in May, 1891, con- 

 ferred upon him by the University of South Carolina. 

 He collected as a part of his botanical work a consid- 

 erable number of plants for preservation, and this her- 

 barium of his is now in the possession of the Charleston 

 Museum. 



Bibliography. 



Porcher, Francis Peyre. — ''Medico-Botanical Cata- 

 logue of the Plants and Ferns of St. John's, Berkeley, 

 S. C," 1847. 



— "Sketch of the Medical Botany of South Caro- 

 lina." 1849. 



