[107] “Sono ancora da farsi nuove esperienze intorno alla radice di Calumbe, creduta un grandissimo alessifarmaco.”—Esperienze, p. 125. (See Appendix, R.)
[108] Essays Medical and Experimental, Lond. ii. (1773) 3.
[109] Asiatick Researches, x. (1808) 385; Ainslie, Mat. Med. of Hindoostan, 298.
[110] Wholesale druggists sometimes wash the drug to improve its colour.
[111] From the Portuguese parreira, signifying a vine that grows against a wall (in French treille), and brava, wild.
[112] For a figure see Bentley and Trimen, Medic. Plants, Part 5 (1876); also Eichler in Martius’ Flor. Bras. fasc. 38. tab. 48. The Cissampelos Abutua of Vellozo’s Flora Fluminensis, tom. x. tab. 140 appears to us the same plant.
[113] See Pharm. Journ. Aug. 2, 1873. 83; Yearbook, 1873. 28; Am. Journ. of Pharm. Oct. 1, 1873. fig. 3; Hanbury Science Papers. 382.
[114] Hist. des Drog. Paris, 1694. part i. livre 2. cap. 14.
[115] Hist. de l’Acad. roy. des Sciences, anneé 1710. 56.
[116] Traité des maladies les plus fréquentes et des remèdes spécifiques pour les guérir, Paris, 1703. 98.