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.] Remarks.—In addition to the foregoing cases, reported, and alluded to as treated in the fall of 1S53, I have treated six cases during the past summer, (1854) exclusively with cedron, with the following results : Four with cure, prompt and permanent, one passed from my observation before the result was known, and the remaining one is still under ob- servation, having resisted emetics, quinine, and beberine, previous to consulting me. From these results and those obtained in neuralgic cases, which we think unnessary to detail, there can hardly arise a doubt but that the cotyledons of the Simaba cedron, one of which is here represented, possess decided anti-periodic prop- Convex surface of a Cotyledon of Cedron. Plat surface of a Cotyledon of Cedron, erties. And in this belief we do not stand alone. Dr. Ces- pedes, of Bogota; M. Herran, of France; Dr. P. Smith, of San Francisco, Cal.; and Dr. Magrath, of Jamaica, W. I.; have each testified, as will be seen hereafter, to its decided medicinal virtues in this respect. Dr. Magrath, of Kingston, Jamaica, has used it extensive- ly not only in the treatment of intermittent fever, but also in yellow fever. In this latter disease, he writes me, that it appears as useless as quinine, or any other remedy to assist the progress of the disease, in most of the cases in hospital, although it was thought that the skin of those who were taking it, was less dark or congested, than those who did not take it. His mode of giving it in intermittent fever, was in powder, or in pills, in ten grain doses every three hours, for twenty-four or thirty-six hours, and with the effect of suc- cessfully arresting the disease; he always gave it during the