William Woodville (1752-1805), an English physician and early advocate of smallpox inoculation and vaccination, was also a botanist and member of the Linnaean Society. His three-volume Medical Botany (1791-1793), illustrated by James Sowerby, describes the structure and medicinal uses for all the plants mentioned in the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh’s Materia Medica.
Adopted by Marshall Chapman in honor of Christopher Fletcher.