[2191] Archiv der Pharmacie, 201 (1872) 441 and 211 (1877) 101.
[2192] Choulant, Macer Floridus, etc., Lips. 1832, 188.
[2193] Compendium aromatariorum, Bonon., 1488.
[2194] Richard, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Apotheken, 1825. 124.
[2195] Miquel, Commentarii phytographici, i. (Lugd. Bat., 1839).
[2196] In Duncan’s Edinburgh New Dispensatory, ed. 2. 1804, Piper Cubeba is very briefly described, but with no allusion to its possessing any special medicinal properties. In the 6th edition of the same work (1811) it was altogether omitted. See also Murray’s System of Mat. Med. and Pharm. i. (1810) 266.
[2197] Dictionary of the Indian Islands, 1856. 117.—Mr. Crawfurd himself communicated to the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal of 1818 (xiv. 32) a paper making known the “wonderful success” with which cubebs had been used in gonorrhœa.
[2198] We are indebted for some particulars under this head to our friends Mr. Binnendyk, of the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden near Batavia, and Dr. De Vry.
[2199] Straits Settlements Blue Book for 1872. 294. 338.—There are no statistics for showing the total import of cubebs into the United Kingdom.
[2200] They yielded to Schmidt 1·7 per cent. of oil and 3 per cent. of resin.