[1379] Mérat and De Lens, Dict. de Mat. Méd. iii. (1831) 644, call Legras a physician, and say that Garnier brought himself the 150 lb. from abroad.

[1380] Eloy, Histoire générale de la Médecine. Mons. ii. (1778) 485, mentions a sick druggist, who presented Helvetius with the ipecacuanha. Garnier, according to Eloy, was a “Marchand chapelier.”—Leibnitz, in Ephemerid. Academ. Cæsareo-Leopold, 1696, Appendix, p. 6, miscalled the merchant Grenier.

[1381] An abstract of the royal patent is given by Leibnitz, l. c. 20 (date not added).

[1382] On the history of ipecacuanha, consult also Sprengel, Geschichte der Arzneykunde, iv. (1827) 542.—We have not seen the pamphlet quoted by Haller, Bibl. bot. ii. 17: Helvetius, Usage de l’Hipecacoanha. 4° (no date).

[1383] Trans. of Linn. Soc. vi. (1801) 137.

[1384] Abstracted from the interesting eye-witness account of Weddell, l. c.

[1385] The following are the average prices at which the drug was purchased wholesale, in London during three periods of ten years each:—

10years ending1850,average price2s. 9½d.per lb.
10”1860,”6s. 11½d.”
10”1870,”8s. 8¼d.”

[1386] Annual Report of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, 31 May 1873—from which we have abstracted many of the foregoing particulars. The report for 1876-1877 is by no means favourable to the prospects of Cephaëlis in India.

[1387] See the results obtained by Richard and Barruel, by Magendie and Pelletier, and by Attfield, as recorded by the last named chemist in Proceedings of the British Pharmaceutical Conference for 1869. 37-39.