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" Laws of the State of Indiana (1830), Ch. XLIX, 91-3.
^^ Illinois Intelligencer, November 18, 182 J.
305
^^ Medicine and Its Development in Kentucky (Works Progress
Administration Project, Louisville, 1940), 79.
^^ Dr. Irvin Abell, "The Heritage of Kentucky Medicine," Kentucky
Medical Journal, XXIV (1926), 477.
^^ Henry B. Favill, "Early Medical Days in Wisconsin," Bulletin of
the Society of Medical History of Chicago, I (1911), 100; Journal of
the American Medical Association, XLIV (1905), 1217.
^* Dr. J. T. Reeve, in State Board of Health of Illinois Fifth Annual
Report (Springfield, 1883), 154.
NOTES: CHAPTER SEVEN
^ Indiana Journal, August 7, 1835.
^George W. Sloan, writing of the 1840*s in "Fifty Years of Pharmacy,"
Indiana Historical Society 'Publications, HI (1903), 335.
* Albert E. Ebert, "Early History of the Drug Trade of Chicago,"
Illinois Historical Society Transactions, 1903, 245.
^Kentucky Yeoman (Frankfort), March, 1845.
^ Samples of contents of Ohio doctors' saddle bags in the period prior
to 1840 are listed by Dr. Howard Dittrick, "The Equipment, Instruments
and Drugs of Pioneer Physicians of Ohio," Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical Qtiarterly, XLVIII (1939), 208-9. J. J. Tyler, in
"Dr. Luther Spellman, Early Physician of the Western Reserve," Ohio
State Medical Journal, XXXIV (April, 1938), lists the following drugs
as having been purchased by a doctor in Canfield, Youngstown, and
Pittsburgh between 1811 and 1816: opium, senna, sulphur, castor oil,
Glauber's salts, ipecac, lead acetate, orange peel, magnesia, potassium
bitartrate, rhubarb, gmger, calamine, ginseng, citrine ointment, oil
sweet almonds, ferrous sulphate, gulac, Peruvian bark, calomel, saltpeter,
wormwood, rosin, cantharides, Bergundy pitch, balsam copaiba, mercurial
ointment, gum ammoniac, aloes, camphor, myrrh, sweet spirit of
nitre, serpentaria, zinc sulphate, alum, liquorice, steel filings, gum
arable, calumba, tartar emetic, white arsenic, silver nitrate, sponge,
jalap, asafoetida, anise, gentian, cloves, squills, kino, creta preparata,
juniper, red precipitate of mercury, turpentine, dyanthos, peppermint,
spigelia, lavender, nitric acid, muriatic acid, cassia, castile soap, and
olive oil.
^ June 18, November 6, 1840.
''Fort Wayne Times and Peoples Press, August 21, September 11,
1847.
^Liberty Hall, January 13, 1806.
^ Ibid., July 18, 1810; May 1, 1811.
^® Also Illinois Intelligencer, September, 1825, etc.