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GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712) , English vegetable anatomist and physiologist, was the only son of Obadiah Grew (1607-1688), Nonconformist divine and vicar
Cambridge in 1661, and ten years later took the degree of M.D. at Leiden,his thesis being Disputatio medico-physica . . . de liquore nervosa. He began observations on the anatomy of plants in 1664, and in 167o his essay, The Anatomy of Vegetables begun, was communicated to the Royal Society by Bishop Wilkins, on whose recommendation he was in the following year elected a fellow. In 1672, when the essay was published, he settled in London, and soon acquired an extensive practice as a physician. In 1673 he published his Idea of a Phytological History, which consisted of papers he had communicated to the Royal Society in the preceding year, and in 1677 he succeeded Henry
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