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Some of the drug conditions during the war between the States, 1861-5.
A paper read before a meeting of the American pharmaceutical Association held in Baltimore, Maryland, in August, 1898,
[This highly interesting paper has been furnished through the kind mediation of
Walter L. Fleming, Ph. D.,
Professor of History in West Virginia University, and the author of the important and thoughtful ‘Civil War and Reconstruction in
Alabama,’ etc.
Dr. Fleming is a diligent and conscientious delver and makes effective use of his devoted investigations.
The prayer due is that such exponents be multiplied!
The author of the valuable article, which it is a privilege to preserve in these pages, was born in August, 1859.
His father was a defender of the righteous Southern cause, serving as a member of the 14th Georgia C. S. A. The son,
Joseph Jacobs, at the early age of thirteen, became an apprentice to the distinguished physician-pharmacist
Dr. Crawford W. Long, the discoverer of the use of ether as an anesthetic-one of the greatest boons ever conferred on humanity, as is justly urged in glowing tribute, and whose claim as the original discoverer is cogently maintained in an article in the ‘
Southern Advance,’ by his pupil, now a leading druggist in
Atlanta, and whose progressive spirit does honor to his famous preceptor.
The admirable paper covers a much broader field than its title, ‘Some of the
Drug Conditions,’ would imply, as it comprehends the conditions governing the supply of many other articles of vital importance in the stupendous struggle of the
South.
Dr. Jacobs writes that the facts presented by him, were ‘gathered from various sources, by interviewing men who were in the drug business during the war, and by having access to many interesting and valuable papers.’
Some references for those interested may be added: ‘The Resources of the
Southern Fields and Forests,’ by Francis Payre
Porcher, surgeon P. A. C. S., and prepared and published by order of
Surgeon General S. P. Moore in 1863, and the following in the
