Practical observations on the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment as a substitute for quinine / by Samuel S. Purple.

  • Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Practical observations on the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment as a substitute for quinine / by Samuel S. Purple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1854.] far) fusal to heal is alone attribTThible to the extent of the tegu- mentary loss. C 3d.—The graft must be brought from a part quite remote ; generally from an opposite l(mb, or from another person. 4th.—If smaller than the ettasm which it is intended to fill, the graft will grow, or project from itself new skin to supply the deficiency. v 5 th.—It is not improbable/that the graft will expand dur- ing the process of cicatrization at its margins, but especially for a time after the cicatrization is consummated. 6th.—In consequence of one dV of both of these two latter circumstances, it will not be (necessary to make the graft so large as the deficiency it is intended to supply. — Art. II. Practical Observations on the Remedial Properties of Simaba Cedron, and on its employment as a Substitute for Quinine.’ By Samuel S. Purple, M.kl. It will be remembered by those wllo*take especial interest in investigations which relate to vegetable materia medica, that about 1850 the attention of the medical public was particu- larly called to “ cedron,” as an invaluable specific for the bites of venomous snakes. In the spring of 1852, Burtis Skidmore, Esq., of this city, placed in my possession, for ex- amination, two of the kernels. This was my first acquaint- ance with “cedron,” for at this time I had not seen Mr. Hooker’s description and figure of the tree and cotyledons.* From the limited opportunity which these seeds furnished me of observing their effects in an obstinate case of inter- mittent fever, I became strongly desirous of testing its virtue on an extensive scale in this disease. Such an oppor- tunity I failed in obtaining until September, 1853, when I received from Dr. J. A. Magrath, of Kingston, Jamaica, a package, containing about a pound of the cotyledons. * London Jour, of Botany, 1850, and Pharmaceutical Jour, and Transac- tions, vol. x. p. 344.