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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    one of the largest trees of the American forests. In the low country of Carolina and Georgia, it is somewhat rare and seldom exceeds three feet in diameter, but in the fertile soils of the western country in Ken- tucky, Tennessee and Alabama, it is sometimes found seven to nine feet, and one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty feet in height. The wood of this tree though soft is durable. The leaves are alternate, three-lobed, with the middle lobe truncate, and varying with the angles of the lobe obtuse, acute and accuminate, glabrous, on petioles two to three inches long. Floivers solitary, terminal. Leaves of the calyx concave. Petals obovate, lanceolate, of a dull, yellow colour tinged with red, Stamens numerous, disposed in a simple series shorter than the petals. Germs numerous on a conical receptacle, Grows in most fertile soils. Flowers May and June.—Elliott. Sketch of Botany So. Ca. and Georgia, vol. 2. pp. 40-41. Geographical Distribution.—According to Mickaux, the southern extremity of Lake Champlain in latitude 45°, may he considered as the northern limit, and the Connecticut river, in the longitude of 72° as the eastern limit of the Tulip tree. It is only beyond the Hudson which flows two degrees further west, and below 43° of latitude, that it is frequently met with and fully developed. It is multiplied in the middle states and in the upper parts of the Carolina^ and Georgia, and still more abundantly in the western country, particularly Kentucky. Its comparative rareness in the maritime parts of the Carolinas and of Georgia, in Florida, Alabama and lower Louisiana, is owing less to the heat of the summer than to the nature of the soil, which in some parts is too dry, as in the pine-barrens, and in others too wet, as in the swamps which border the rivers. The western states appear to be the natural soil of this magnificent tree, where they have been found 23 feet in circumference and from 120 to 140 feet in height.—Forest trees of America, vol. 2, p. 35. Chemical Composition.—The first chemical examination of the bark of the Liriodendron Tulipifera, appears to have been made in 1802, by Dr. Rogers. From the state of Organic chemistry at that time this examination was almost necessarily imperfect and resulted in the determination of nothing more than gum resin, an acid supposed to be mu-