Pharmacographia / A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India

by Friedrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury

[157] Lib. vii. c. 7.—See also Cælius Aurelianus, De morbis chronicis (Haller’s ed.) lib. i. c. 4, lib. iii. c. 8.

[158] Cataplasmata lippientium quibus usus est Heraclides Tarentinus—Galen, De Comp. Med. sec. locos, lib. iv. (p. 153 in Venice edit. of 1625).

[159] On the Lycium of Dioscorides.—Linn. Trans. xvii. (1837) 83.

[160] It is interesting to find that two of the names for lycium given by Ibn Baytar in the 13th century are precisely those under which rusot is met with in the Indian bazaars at the present day.

[161] The natives apply it in combination with alum and opium.

[162] O’Shaughnessy, Bengal Dispensatory (1842) 203-205.

[163] Journ. of R. Asiat. Soc. vii. (1843) 74.

[164] Pharm. Journ. vii. (1866) 303.

[165] Gmelin, Chemistry, xvii. (1866) 197.

[166] Nat. Hist. of Carolina, i. tab. 24.