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^^ Western Sun,
1824, June-December; Hamilton Intelligencer and
Advertiser, May, 1824, etc., etc.
^2 Daniel Drake, "The People's Doctors," Western Journal, III
(1830), 416; Gunn, Domestic Medicine (Springfield, 1836 edition),
635-6.
^^ See Chapter II.
^* Also, according to the title page, "Member of the Medical Societies
of Cincinnati and Lexington; the Philadelphia Society and Lyceum of
New York; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; the
American Antiquity Society of "Worcester and Nashville; the Kentucky
Institute, &c; and of several learned Societies of Europe, in Paris, Bruxelles,
Vienna, Bonn, Florence, Naples, &c."
^^ William Salmon, Professor of Physic, The Compleat English Physician,
or, the Druggists Shop Opened (London, 1693). Salmon prescribed
for eye trouble: Ashes of a Cat's Head, white vitriol and
Saccharum Saturni mixed with honey. His "Elixir Universale, Not
particular for any Distemper" was made of Rex Metallorum, Pouder of
Lyons Heart, Filings of a Unicorn Horn, Ashes of a whole Chameleon,
Bark of Witch-Hazel, Earth Worms ("a score"). Dried Man's Brains,
and Egyptian Onions, mixed in Spirits Universalis.
i« Quoted in Western Journal, III (1830), 459.
^"^
Richard Ellsworth Call, The Life and Writings of Rafinesque,
Filson Club Publications, No. X (Louisville, 1895), 51-2.
18 June 11, 1829.
1* Ohio Farmer (Batavia), August 1, October 1, 1835.
20 Western Sun, July 6, 1826.
21 Portsmouth Journal in (Cincinnati) National Republican and
Ohio Political Register, January 20, 1824.