[K] As my researches are confined to my own library, I do not
profess to be exhaustive. I have not given all the references
at my command, but have aimed to include such writers as have
made positive contributions to our knowledge of this drug. Of
my list, only Rafinesque is a mere (but a useful) compiler.
1785. Rev. Dr. M. Cutler.--_Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences._ Boston.
1787. D. J. D. Schoepf, M. D.--_Materia Medica Americana potissimum
Regni Vegetabilis._ Erlangen. (Not in my possession. Quoted from
Barton.)
1813. James Thacher, M. D.--_The American New Dispensatory._ Boston.
(This is the second edition wherein Pothos is mentioned for the first
time. Our citations are from the fourth edition. Boston, 1821.)
1817. James Thacher, M. D.--_American Modern Practice, etc._ Boston.
1818. Jacob Bigelow, M. D.--_American Medical Botany, etc._ Vol. 2.
Boston.
1820. Wm. M. Hand.--_The House-Surgeon and Physician._ Second edition.
New Haven.
1822. Jacob Bigelow, M. D.--_A Sequel to the Pharmacopoeia of the U.
S._ Boston.
1822. John Eberle, M. D.--_Materia Medica and Therapeutics._
Philadelphia. (The citations are from the fourth edition. Philadelphia,
1836.)
1825. Ansel W. Ives, M. D.--_Paris' Pharmacologia._ Third American
edition. New York.
1830. Elisha Smith.--_The Botanic Physician, etc._ New York. (The title
page proclaims him "president of the New York Association of Botanic
Physicians.")
1838. C. S. Rafinesque.--_Medical Flora, etc._ Philadelphia.
It was admitted into the _catalogus secundarius_ of the second edition
of _The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America_, and dropped
into the dust-heap when the men who knew how to use it had passed away.