Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel

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What Wikipedia says

Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and medical doctor who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde (1792–99 in four volumes with later editions running to five) and several other medical reference works.

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