[2001] Besides this, the pith of sassafras is also there used as a popular remedy; it is entirely devoid of odour and taste, and is very slightly mucilaginous.
[2002] American Journ. of Pharm. 1871. 470.
[2003] Burmah, its people and natural productions, 1860. 497.
[2004] Brit. Guiana at the Paris Exhibition, 1878, Sect. C. p. 7.
[2005] Spruce in Hooker’s Journ. of Bot. vii. (1855) 278.
[2006] Ritter, Erdkunde von Asien, vii. (1844) 2. 544.
[2007] Eng. Hist., Bohn’s ed., iii. (1854) 255.
[2008] Introduced into Mexico by Cortez about a.d. 1560.
[2009] See in particular 1 Sam. xxv. 18 and 1 Chron. xii. 40; where we read of large supplies of dried figs being provided for the use of fighting men. Also Num. xx. 5; Jer. xxiv. 2; 2 Reg. xx. 7.
[2010] On the Riviera of Genoa dried figs eaten with bread are a common winter food of the peasantry.