Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel
German botanist (1766–1833) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Carl Sprengel.
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Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833)[1] was a German botanist and physician 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.