[591] Compositiones Medicament. cap. 103.
[592] Comm. in lib. i, Dioscoridis.
[593] Flückiger, Die Frankfurter Liste, Halle, 1873. 7. 16.—“Gumi elemi” is also found in a similar list of the year 1480, compiled in the town of Nördlingen, Bavaria. See Archiv der Pharm. 211 (1877) 103.
[594] Compendium Aromatariorum, Bonon. 1488.
[595] This very rare volume is one of the treasures of the National Library of Paris.
[596] From the Greek ἔνιμον, signifying blood-stopping.
[597] Brassavola observes—“quandoque inclinavimus ut gummi oleæ Æthiopicæ esset gummi elemi dicti, quasi enhæmi.”—Examen simplicium, Lugd. 1537. 386.
[598] Hist. Stirp. libri iv., edition of Gesner, Argentorati, 1561. 209.
[599] Libro de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, Sevilla, 1565.
[600] Thus Piso in 1658 describes the resin of an Icica as exactly resembling Elemi and quite as good for wounds.—Hist. nat. et med. Ind. Occ. 122.