Observations on the Structure and Economy of Plants: To which is added, the Analogy between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdom.

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Interesting and very detailed botanical primer by physician Robert Hooper (17731835). Of particular interest is the section 'of the analogy between animals and vegetables', prefixed by a quotation from Pope, which most clearly demonstrates Hooper's medical interests. Here, the bud is compared to the foetus, leaf to lung and sap to blood. Hooper penned this work in his mid twenties while a student at Pembroke College, Oxford (the work is dedicated to its then-master, the Rev. John Smith). He attained his doctorate from St Andrews, built an extensive practice in London and was a prolific lecturer and writer. He retired in 1829, having made a fortune, and lived at Stanmore, where he amassed a fine collection of paintings (ODNB).Not in Hunt.