[1388] Gmelin, Chemistry, xv. (1862) 523.
[1389] Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the U.K. for 1870.—The more recent issues of this return have been simplified to such an extent that drugs are for the greater part included under one head.
[1390] In the Madras Presidency, the death-rate from dysentery was 71 per 1000 cases treated: under the new method of treatment, it has been reduced to 13·5. In Bengal it has fallen from 88·2 to 28·8 per 1000.—Supplement to the Gazette of India, January 23, 1869.
[1391] As Ionidium Ipecacuanha Vent., I. Poaya St. Hil., I. parviflorum Vent., the first of which affords the Poaya branca or White Ipecacuanha of the Brazilians.—See C.F.P. von Martius, Specimen Mat. Med. Bras. 1824; A. de St. Hilaire, Plantes usuelles des Brésiliens, 1827-28.
[1392] Attfield in Pharm. Journ. xi. (1870) 140.
[1393] Journ. de Pharm. xvi. (1872) 405: xvii. 19.
[1394] Namely Ashover, Woolley Moor, Morton, Stretton, Higham, Shirland, Pilsley, North and South Wingfield, and Brackenfield. From the produce of these villages, one wholesale dealer in Chesterfield obtained in 1872 about 6 tons (13,440 lb.) of root.
[1395] Regel, Tentamen Floræ Ussuriensis, 1862 (Mém. de l’Académie de St. Pétersbourg).
[1396] V. officinalis L. and nine other species occur in Asia Minor (Tehihatcheff).
[1397] Opera Omnia, Lugd. 1515, cap. 45.—It must be remembered that this is a translation from the Arabic. How the word in question stands in the original we have no means of knowing.