[177] physicians during the war in large quantities, in most of the instances being the only medicines of the kind to be had: ***
imported articles. | substitute. |
Columbo, Quassia | Yellow root, Spanish flies, potato bugs, powdered leaves of butternut |
Jalap | Wild Jalap, Mulberry bark, Butternut, Dock, Wild potato vine, Amer Columbo |
Quinine and Peruvian Bark | Tulip tree bark, Dogwood, Cotton-seed tea, Chestnut root and bark, Thoroughwort, Spanish oak bark, Knob grass, Willow bark |
Digitalis | Blood-root, Wild cherry, Pipsissiwa, Bugle weed, Jasmine |
Conium | American hemlock |
Opium | American hemlock, Motherwort |
Sarsaparilla | Wild Sarsaparilla, Soapwort, Yellow parilla, China briar, Queen's delight |
Chamomile | Dogwood |
Flaxseed | Watermelon seed |
Gum Arabic | Low mallows, apple, pear and quince gum, Balm, Watermelon seed |
Ergot | Cotton-root |
Guaiacum | Boxwood, Poke, Prickly ash |
Ipecac | Wild Jalap, Carolina hipps |
Mezereon | Prickly ash |
Kino and Catechu | Cranesbill |
Senna | Wild Senna |
Colocynth | Alum-root |
Tannin | Smooth sumac |
Olive oil | Peanut oil, Beech-nuts oil, Cotton-seed oil |
Laudanum | Hops, Motherwort |
Acacia | Slippery elm bark, Sassafras pith |