PORCHER,
Francis Peyre, physician, born in St. John's, Berkeley,
South Carolina, 14 December, 1825. He was graduated at South
Carolina college in 1844 and at the Medical college of the
state of South Carolina in 1847, where he now holds the
chair of materia medica and therapeutics. On graduating he
settled in Charleston, where he has since continued in the
active practice of his profession, also holding the
appointments of surgeon and physician to the marine and city
hospitals. During the civil war he was surgeon in charge of
Confederate hospitals at Norfolk and Petersburg, Virginia
Dr. Porcher was president of the South Carolina medical
association in 1872, and, besides holding memberships in
other societies, is an associate fellow of the Philadelphia
college of physicians. He was one of the editors of the
"Charleston Medical Journal and Review," having charge of
the publication of five volumes of the first series
(1850-'5), and more recently of four volumes of the second
series (1873-'6). Dr. Porcher was an enthusiastic botanist
and has devoted considerable attention to that subject.
Besides numerous fugitive contributions to the medical
journals, and articles in medical works, he has published "A
Medico-Botanical Catalogue of the Plants and Ferns of St.
John's, Berkeley, South Carolina" (Charleston, 1847); " A
Sketch of the Medical Botany of South Carolina"
(Philadelphia, 1849); "The Medicinal, Poisonous, and
Dietetic Properties of the Cryptogamic Plants of the United
States" (New York, 1854); " Illustrations of Disease with
the Microscope, and Clinical Investigations aided by the
Microscope and by Chemical Reagents" (Charleston, 1861); and
" Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical,
Economical, and Agricultural," published by order of the
surgeon-general of the Confederate states (Richmond, 1863 ;
new and revised ed., Charleston, 1869). Edited
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