American Medical Biographies/Zollickoffer, William
Zollickoffer, William (1793–1853)
The available material for a life of William Zollickoffer, botanist, proved very scanty. He graduated M. D. at the University of Maryland in 1818, and the Washington University in 1838. In the minutes of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland is a note that in 1830 Dr. William Zollickoffer was put in charge of a "vaccine agency" in Baltimore provided he should sustain it for one year and conduct it to the satisfaction of the faculty. He was one of the earliest in the United States to write a materia medica and his book entitled "A Materia Medica of the United States," came out in 1819, and was re-issued in 1827. He also wrote, in 1822, a pamphlet on the "Use of Prussiate of Iron in Intermitting and Remitting Fevers." He was lecturer on medical botany, materia medica and therapeutics at the University of Maryland. It is said the Zollikoferia, one of the asteraceae, was named after him by De Candolle. His death took place in Carroll County, Maryland, in 1853, at the age of sixty.