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Note from page 466: 1. Blue mass was a mercury preparation used as a laxative. See The Dispensatory of the United States of America (Philadelphia, 1883), 929 — 31. The editors are grateful to Professors James Harvey Young and David L. Cowen for this reference.

Note from page 467: 2. See §298, note 2.

Note from page 467: 3. A Radical Republican sympathizer of Salmon P. Chase, appointed surveyor of the Port of New York in April 1861 and removed in September 1864.