Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 29: January, 1892 Carolina offered premiums for the cultivation of the following drugs: For the largest quantity of not less than 10 pounds of Fox-glove, ten dollars; for the largest quantity not less than 5 pounds of opium, twenty-five dollars (to be exhibited at the next meeting of the for the largest quantity not less than 10 pounds of rhubarb, exhibited to the Society in 4 years, thirty dollars; for the largest quantity of caster-oil not less than 5 gallons, to be ...
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Excerpt from North Carolina Medical Journal, Vol. 29: January, 1892 Carolina offered premiums for the cultivation of the following drugs: For the largest quantity of not less than 10 pounds of Fox-glove, ten dollars; for the largest quantity not less than 5 pounds of opium, twenty-five dollars (to be exhibited at the next meeting of the for the largest quantity not less than 10 pounds of rhubarb, exhibited to the Society in 4 years, thirty dollars; for the largest quantity of caster-oil not less than 5 gallons, to be obtained without heat, five dollars; and for the largest quantity not less than 50 pounds of senna, ten dollars. So ran the patriotic sentiment of the profession of that day, that they must not buy or use imported drugs, but bend their energies to supplying their own needs. The list was'a small one, to be sure, but not even burning patriotism could cause the most needed plants to grow in a soil and climate not suited to them. In the north D. Jacob Bigelow had led the profession in the study of indigenous medicines, and sixteen years after the North Carolina Society had made an effort to grow drugs, he had published his magnificent work entitled American Botany In the same year, Dr. W. P. C. Barton, professor of botany in the University of Pennsylvania, published A Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States, {and in the preface to his Flora of North America, 1821, he says That spirit of independence which forms the basis of character in a true American, has discovered its determi nation to emancipate itself from a scientific subjugation to foreign countries. This emancipation was to be largely in the discovery of indigenous plants possessing medicinal qualities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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