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uvaursi, valerian, hellebore, prickly ash, touchwood, agrimony, sweet
fern, mandrake, marjoram, colt's foot, mistletoe, Peruvian bark. Many
of these same remedies were indicated in Culpepper's treatise.
*But not original: "Celtiberia in terra, quod quisque minxit, hoc
sibi solet mane dentem atque russam defricare gingiuam, ut quo iste
uester expolitior dens est, hoc te amplius bibisse praedicet loti." Catullus,
Carmina, XXXIX. Also "They [Iberians] have regard not for rational
living, but rather for satisfying their physical needs and bestial instincts
—unless some one thinks those men have regard for rational living who
bathe with urine aged in cisterns and wash their teeth with it, both they
and their wives, as the Cantabrians and the neighboring peoples are
said to do." Strabo, III, 164.
^ R. E. Banta, "The Indian Doctors," Wabash Bulletin, XL (January,
1942), 24.
^^ Indiana Republican (Madison), August 1, 1833.
^^ For note on folk cures and superstitions see bibliographical note.
^^ Debate regarding the efficacy of this cure continues in the press
a hundred years later.
^^ "Took it by storm," said Dr. Morris Fishbein, The Medical Follies
(New York, 1925), 21; this may be a slight exaggeration.
^^ Daily Cincinnati Gazette, January 1, 1849.
^^ Louisville Journal in Columbus (Ohio) Daily Journal, August 2,
1837.
^^ Dr. Otto Juettner, Daniel Drake and His Followers
1909), 95.
(Cincinnati,
^"^
Colnmbus Daily Journal, July 25, 1837; Portsmouth Journal in
(Cincinnati)
20, 1824.
National Republican and Ohio Political Register, January
^^ Cincinnati Times, in Juettner, Daniel Drake, 93.
^^ Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, I (1858), 442-3.
^^Ibid., 400-1.
^^
The Worcester and Philadelphia editions of 1804 and 1806 carried
the title Domestic Medicine: or a Valuable Treatise on the Prevention
and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines. With an Appendix,
containing a new Dispensatory, for the Use of Private Practitioners.
To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people;
recommending a method of living less expensive and more conducive
to health, than the present. Buchan was graduated at Edinburgh in 1761
and began his lectures there in 1766. He became a fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians in
1772. Later years were spent in London where
he published several other books on medicine and health.
^^ Hugh P. Greeley, "Early Wisconsin Medical History," in Wisconsin
Medical Journal, XX (1922), 5 58-69.