Observations on some of the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment in intermittent fever / by S.S. Purple.

  • Samuel S. Purple
Date:
1854
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    practical ^tobatas tm % ]&tmVml frojwtus SIMABA CEDRON, It will be remembered by those who take especial interest in investigations which relate to vegetable materia medica, that about 1S5Q 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.