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

by Friedrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury

[2714] See p. 267.

[2715] Cuscus, otherwise written Khus-khus, a name adopted by the English in India, is probably from the Persian Khas. Vetti-ver is the Malyalim name of the plant.

[2716] Proc. of Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, Aug. 1873. 161.

[2717] De virtute simplicium, cap. i. (Agrostis).

[2718] De medicamentis, cap. xxvi.

[2719] Tetrabibli primæ, sermo i.

[2720] As in the Herbarius Pataviæ printed in 1485, in which it is said of Gramen—“aqua decoctionis ejus ... valet contra dissuriam ... et frangit lapidem et curat vulnera vesicæ et provocat urinam....”

[2721] Herball, part 2, 1568. 13.

[2722] Archiv der Pharm. 203. (1873) 17.

[2723] Della Cinodina, nuovo prodotto organico, trovato nella gramigna officinale, Cynodon Dactylon.—Opere minori di Giovanni Semmola, Napoli, 1841.—Abstracted in the Jahresbericht of Berzelius, Tübingen, 1845. 535.