Pharmacographia / A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India

by Friedrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury

[2528] Hortus medicus et philosophicus, Francof. 1588. 5.

[2529] Treasury of Drugs, ed. ii. 1724. 115.

[2530] See also Trimen in Journ. of Botany, ix. (1871) 163.

[2531] Mat. Med. of Hindoostan, Madras, 1813. 54.

[2532] Exod. xxx. 23; Cant. iv. 14; Ezek. xxvii. 19.—See also page 715, footnote 2.

[2533] In Diosc. de Mat. Med. Enarrationes, Argent. 1554. 33.

[2534] Hortus Malabar, xi (1692) tab. 48. 49.

[2535] Flückiger, Documente (quoted page 562), 78.

[2536] Apparatus Medicaminum, v. 40.

[2537] This was possibly alluded to by Albertus Magnus (a.d. 1193-1280), who says:—(Calamus aromaticus)—nascitur in India et Ethiopia sub cancro, et habet interius ex parte concava “pellem subtilem, sicut telæ sunt aranearum.”—De Vegetabilibus, Jessen’s ed. 1867. 376. We suppose the drug under notice was intended.