Porcher, Francis Peyre

FIGURE 2.2. Francis Peyre Porcher was from one of the prominent families of Charleston, South Carolina. Fils Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests was the basis for the Confederacy s indigenous supply table, and is today considered a classic of American medical botany. Photo courtesy of the Waring Historical Library, Medical University of South Carolina. 

Although these random sources of drug substitutes were often tried and abandoned, the one quasi-official source was Francis Peyre Porcher s (1824-1895) Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests. Moore actually commissioned the South Carolina physician to prepare a work of indigenous plant-drug substitutes, and even years later... 

Francis Peyre Porcher, Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests (Charleston, SC Evans and Cogswell, 1863), p. 310. 

One final resource specific to the Confederacy should be mentioned it is the enormously valuable Documenting the American South Web site of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where many extremely helpful primary sources are available full-text, online. Circulars, reports, and handbooks from the Surgeon General s Office are available, including Francis Peyre Porcher s Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests (Charleston, SC Evans and Cogswell, 1863). 

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