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theria being used in medicine, although the plants that 

 contain it were generally recognized in pharmacy, the 

 oil being distilled by primitive methods and known to 

 druggists. Thus, as showing that even if used at all, it 

 could not have been important, reference needs only be 

 made to a few of the many authorities who would not 

 have overlooked it, had it been thus employed. These 

 are: 



Amoenitates Academicae III, p. 14, 1787. 



"Gaultheria, Kalm. (385) (Gen. 487). Uses foliorum 

 in infuso, loca These. Dixit plantam Cl. Kalmius a 

 D. D. Gaulthier, Medico Canadensi, Botanico eximio." 

 No reference to the oil. 



Benj. Smith Barton. Collections (43.) 

 Phila. 1798. p. 19. 



"The Gaultheria procumbens, which we call Mountain 

 Tea, is spread very extensively over the more barren, 

 mountainous part of the United States," etc. Does not 

 mention the oil. 



Pharmacopeia of the Mass. Medical Society (503) 

 Boston, 1808 



No mention of the oil or plant. 

 W. P. C. Barton, Mat. Med. I, p. 171, 1817. (43a). 



Although he describes the medicinal virtues of Gaul- 

 theria in detail, he does not mention the oil. However, 

 as showing that oil of gaultheria was distilled preceding 

 1818, I will cite 

 Bigelow, Amer. Med. Botany (69), II, p. 28. Boston, 1818. 



Pyrola umbellata (p. 15) is herein called Winter- 

 green. 



Gaultheria procumbens (Partridge Berry): "The 

 aromatic flavor of the Partridge berry, which can not 



