[1438] The paper of Alms being contained in the very same periodical (p. 319) as that of Kahler (and further in vol. xxxix. 190), affords additional evidence of the independence of the discovery.
[1439] Its ready solubility in 3 or 4 parts of chloroform renders its estimation easy when mixed with sugar, as in a santonin lozenge.
[1440] Sprengel, Geschichte der Arzneykunde, iv. (1827) 546.
[1441] Fehr, De Arnica lapsorum panacea, in Ephemerid. nat. cur. Dec. 1, (1678, 1679) No. 2. p. 22 (“usus est in radice, foliis et floribus”).—G. A. de la Marche, Dissertatio, Halæ Magdeburg, 1744.
[1442] Heinrich Joseph Collin, Heilkräfte des Wolverley, Breslau, 1777 (translation); also Arnicæ, in febribus et aliis morbis putridis vires,—in the Anni Medici of Störck and Collin, ed. nov., Amstel., iii. (1779) 133.
[1443] Holmes in Pharm. Journ., April 11, 1874. 810.
[1444] Figured in Nees von Esenbeck’s Plantæ medicinales, Düsseldorf, ii. (1833) fol. 39.
[1445] Perhaps from τράζυνον or τρόξμνον signifying Wild Lettuce; according to some, from τάραξις, a disease of the eye which the plant was used to cure, or from the verb τάρασσω, I disturb.
[1446] Herbarius zu teutsch und von aller handt kreuteren, Augspurg, 1488. cap. clii.
[1447] The Physicians of Myddvai, 284 ([see Appendix]).