Hist Sci Med. 1999 Oct-Dec; 33(4): 351-9.

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Goursolas F.

John Frederick Oberlin (1740-1826) minister and philantropist for sixty years in a Vosges valley, not far from Schirmeck-Rothau, studied sciences at Strasbourg University. He brought to his parish phythoterapy, Linne's classifying of plants and some start of scientific medicine. Two of his sons took their Doctor's degree at Strasbourg and one of them worked part of his life as a General Practioner in the valley. The present paper makes mention of a few plants in the herbarium preserved at the parsonage Museum of Waldersbach with their copies in slides. The interest they offer lies in their excellent preservation and the medical properties written out in French, German, Latin and Vosges provincial dialect. It is called to attention there may be an uncertainty about the present name of one plant.