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Albert C. (Albert Cornelius) Crawford
1869–1921
A physician, pharmacologist, and botanist, he wrote closely observed scientific work on poisonous plants and livestock disease in the American West. His surviving publications have the feel of field science in action: practical, careful, and deeply curious.
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Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease
by Albert C. (Albert Cornelius) Crawford
About the author
Born in Baltimore in 1869, Albert Cornelius Crawford trained in medicine and went on to build a career that crossed pharmacology, botany, and scientific investigation. Records associated with Stanford identify him as a professor of pharmacology at Stanford University Medical School from 1910 until 1921, and other library and catalog sources connect him with earlier work in government research and laboratory medicine.
Crawford is best remembered today through specialized scientific writing rather than mainstream literary fame. His best-known work, Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease (1908), examined plant poisoning and its effects on livestock, part of a broader interest in toxic plants and physiology. Catalog records also link him to research on the suprarenal capsule with John Jacob Abel, showing his place in the early development of American pharmacology.
He died in 1921. Although little popular biographical material survives, the available archival record suggests a scholar whose work sat at the meeting point of medicine, chemistry, and the natural world.