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

by Friedrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury

[1072] For the history of the oil see our article Cortex Cinnamon, chemical composition.

[1073] Langkavel, Botanik der späteren Griechen, Berlin, 1866. 19.

[1074] At this period, the clove was called Ki shêh hiang, i.e. fowl’s tongue spice. The modern name Ting hiang, i.e. nail-scent or-spice, was in use in the 5th or 6th century of our era.

[1075] Liber Pontificalis, seu de Gestis Romanorum Pontificum, Romæ, i. (1724) 94.

[1076] Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus, series Græca, lxxxviii. (1860) 446.

[1077] Puschman’s edition ([quoted in the appendix]) i. 435. 580. Alexander dedicated his work to his teacher, the father of Cosmas.

[1078] De re medica, lib. vii. c. 3.

[1079] Poematium Medicum—Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus, lxxxix. (1850) 374.

[1080] Pardessus, Diplomata, Chartæ, etc., ii. (1849) 309.

[1081] Recueil des Historiens des Croisades, Lois, (1843) 173.