[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 |
