The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum - Or, The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root

"The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum: Or, The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root" by Alice A. Ball is the text of Ball's Master's Degree thesis presented in June 1915. Her specialty included studying some history of the use of the ava (kava) root in the South Pacific islands along with the isolation and analysis of the extracts of the kava root and some preliminary observations of its effects when administered to animals.