Indigenous remedies of the Southern Confederacy which may be employed in the treatment of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Indigenous remedies of the Southern Confederacy which may be employed in the treatment of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ) 1 1861.] JRemedies of the Southern Confederacy. 685 deep blue one with ferrocyanate of potassa. It produced also a dark green or black, with tincture of galls. Carbon- ate of soda when added to the solution, caused a white flocculent precipitate. On adding a solution of phosphate of soda, no change was immediately produced, which led to the belief that a salt of magnesia was present. From the result of these few and imperfect experiments, we may venture to enumerate the following as among the principal constituents of the Cornus Florida. 1, Gum; 2, Resin; 3, Tannin; 4, Gallic Acid; 5, Oil; 6, Fatty Matter; 7, a Crstalline substance ; 8, Bitter Ex- tractive ; 9, Wax; 10, red coloring matter; 11, Lignin; 12, Potassa; 13, lion. To which may be added, Salts of Lime and Magnesia.—Cornus Florida, by James Cock- burn, Jr. Extract from. Thesis. Phil. Coll, of Pharm. American Journal of Pharmacy, July 1835, new series, vol. 1, pp. 109-114. Dr. D. C. O’Keeffe, whilst a student of medicine in the Medical College of Georgia, published a valuable article on the chemical constitution and febrifuge properties of Dog- wood Bark ; in which he states that with the assistance of Dr. Robert Campbell, he had determined upon and con- ducted the following process for obtaining Cornine: Pulverize two lbs. of the well-dried bark of the root; separate its tannin with sulphuric ether, and filter. Mace- rate the separated bark in alcohol for two days, to extract its resin and cornine. Pour off the alcohol, and precipitate the resin with water. Filter off the resin, and precipitate the cornine from’the liquor with a solution of sub-acetate of lead. Separate the sub-acetate of lead from the solution by passing a current of sulphuretted-hydrogen gas through it. Filter and evaporate the fluid down to the cornine. This substance is possessed of decided acid properties, having a well-marked acid reaction ; it is of a dark straw color, very bitter and astringent. Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, January, 1849, p. 6-7. Dr. O’Keefle cites the testimony of Prof. Geiger, of Ilei- %