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Dr. J. C. Smith family household and medical book, 1847
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I have much pleasure in forwarding a description &c of the valuable leaf of the plant matico well known in South America [illegible] famous [styftic?] of great power & efficacy by immediately closing the extremities of bleeding vefsels in profuse hemorrhage under the name of the soldiers [illegible]. It was accidentally discovered. A soldier, wounded in the field of battle was left bleeding so profusely as to afford little or no hope of his surviving the occurence of fainting so far checked the hemorrhage as to revive him & enable him to perceive his threatened danger he immediately exerted what little strength he pofsefsed to fill the wound with grafs & the leaves of a plant accidentally within his reach (matico) & the effects were sp s[eedu & complete as to enable him to rise from the place where he fell, and he survived to record the means which he supposed has saved his life. There is no published treatise of the plant excepting that by [illegible] [jiffarema?] of Liverpool in the transactions of the
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I have much pleasure in forwarding a description &c of the valuable leaf of the plant matico well known in South America [illegible] famous [styftic?] of great power & efficacy by immediately closing the extremities of bleeding vefsels in profuse hemorrhage under the name of the soldiers [illegible]. It was accidentally discovered. A soldier, wounded in the field of battle was left bleeding so profusely as to afford little or no hope of his surviving the occurence of fainting so far checked the hemorrhage as to revive him & enable him to perceive his threatened danger he immediately exerted what little strength he pofsefsed to fill the wound with grafs & the leaves of a plant accidentally within his reach (matico) & the effects were sp s[eedu & complete as to enable him to rise from the place where he fell, and he survived to record the means which he supposed has saved his life. There is no published treatise of the plant excepting that by [illegible] [jiffarema?] of Liverpool in the transactions of the
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