History of the vegetable drugs of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States / by John Uri Lloyd ; with portraits of Charles Rice and Joseph P. Remington.

  • Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936.
Date:
1911
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Credit: History of the vegetable drugs of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States / by John Uri Lloyd ; with portraits of Charles Rice and Joseph P. Remington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the foremost pharmacologist of the world. With Daniel Hanbury, he had just completed the monumental work on European and Oriental drugs, (including the principal drugs of other parts of the world) known as the Pharmacographia, and was ambitious to continue, in like manner, with the medicinal products of North America. In July, 1894, Professor Fliickiger visited America, where he was the guest of the renowned American pharmacists, Dr. Edward R. Squibb, of Brooklyn, and Dr. Frederick Hoffman, of New York City. He had arranged to visit Cincinnati and consummate here a plan for the detailed study of the North American pharmacography, but a period of intense heat then chanced to prevail throughout America, and the aged professor was forced, reluctantly, to abandon his journey to this city. The writer then selected and forwarded to Professor Fliickiger, for review, several cases of books dealing with the early American materia medica, such as domestic writings, early American travels, Eclectic and Thomsonian literature, as well as publications of primitive days concerning family medicines and connected preparations. These very much delighted and even surprised Professor Fliickiger, both as regards variety and contents. It was then tentatively arranged that a Pharmacography of North American Medicinal Plants and Drugs should be at once in- augurated, the responsibility of the chemistry and the correlation of the chemical and proximate products derived from the American materia medica being assumed by Professor Fliickiger, as well as the system- atic research of foreign publications in those directions. He designed, also, to institute a series of original investigations in his laboratory, at Strassburg University. The Lloyd Library seemed, even then, com- petent to furnish the historical data sufficient to establish the records of the plants considered, this writer (John Uri Lloyd) accepting the responsibility of the history, including the sophistications and descrip- tions of the parts used in medicine, whilst the botanical history, re- lationships, and kindred descriptions were to be the care of Mr. Curtis Gates Lloyd. The publication was thus to partake of the plan of both Drugs and Medicines of North America, and the Pharmacographia of Fliickiger and Hanbury, so well known and so thoroughly established. The work was accordingly commenced, and several historical articles were prepared by the writer, a few of which were forwarded to Pro- fessor Fliickiger. The unfortunate and lamentable death of that world- renowned pharmacologist, within a very short time after his return to Europe, terminated the enterprise, bringing to the writer one of the greatest disappointments of his life. Of the drug articles thus prepared for Professor Fliickiger, two were subsequently published in the American Journal of Pharmacy, one, titled The California Manna * appearing in July, 1897, and the * When Prof. Fliickiger visited America (July, 1894), he hoped to obtain historical data that would enable him to give the records of several interest- ing American productions. In this he failed, and he then associated in his behalf the services of the author of this paper. After much of the work had been done, the death of Prof. Fliickiger interrupted the investigation. These papers (some of them) passed into possession of Prof. Ed.