Drug Supplies in the American Revolution

by George B. Griffenhagen

[44] S. E. Morison and H. S. Commager, The Growth of the American Republic, New York, 1950, vol. 1, p. 210.

[45] New-York Journal, July 13, 1775.

[46] Ibid., May 11, 1775.

[47] New-York Gazette, January 1 and January 29, 1776. For a history of the English patent medicines in America, see G. B. Griffenhagen and J. H. Young in The Chemist and Druggist, 1957, vol. 167, pp. 714-722, and in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 218, 1959, pp. 155-183 (Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 10).

[48] George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931, vol. 4, pp. 464-465.

[49] Morgan, op. cit. (footnote 35), pp. 4, 9, 68; Pennsylvania Packet, June 19, 1779; and Washington, op. cit. (footnote 48), vol. 4, pp. 464-465.

[50] Duncan, op. cit. (footnote 2), p. 135; Morgan, op. cit. (footnote 35), p. 11.

[51] New-York Gazette, May 6 and December 23, 1776.

[52] American Archives, ser. 4, vol. 4, p. 1026.

[53] Ibid., vol. 6, p. 1431.