Anton Wilhelm Plaz
Anton Wilhelm Plaz was a German physician and botanist.
From 1723 he studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig and Halle, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1728. In 1733 he became an associate professor of botany at Leipzig, where afterwards, he successively served as a full professor of botany, physiology, anatomy and surgery, pathology and therapy. From 1773 to 1784 he was dean to the medical faculty at the university. He was a member of the Römisch Kaiserlichen Akademie der Naturforscher.Selected works
- De corporis humani machina divinae sapientiae ac providentiae teste, 1725.
- De potus cofe abusu catalogum morborum, 1733.
- Foliorum in plantis historiam, 1740.
- De morbis ex oblectamentis, 1748.
- De flore plantarum, 1749.
- De brutorum imaginatione, 1749.
- De plantarum plethora, 1754.
- De piis medicorum desideriis, 1772.
- De curatione per iniucunda, 1773.
