Download or read book Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, 1849, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by Paul F. Eve and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, 1849, Vol. 5 It was not until the commencement of the present century, that this article attracted the attention of the profession at large; previous to this time, it had not been much used by regular practitioners, though a popular remedy in domestic practice, and more particularly, among some Southern tribes of Indians. To Dr. J. M. Walker, of Virginia, has been justly awarded the merit of being the first to institute chemical investigations on the constituent principles of the bark, and of promulgating to the profession the discoveries he had By more recent writers on the subject, however, these are pronounced to have been very imperfect.1' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.