Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw.

Date:: 1746

Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Cannabis, Hemp. Its Seed. CappartSy Caper-Bu(h. The Bark of its Root, and the Buds of its Flower. Caprifolium [Periclymenum] Wood-bine, or Honey-fuckle. Its Leaves and Flowers. Capficunjy Guinea Pepper. Its Fruit. Car anna. Its Rofin. Cardamomum maju$\thz greater (Cardamom. .——-minus j the Teller \ * Its Seed. Cardiacdy * There are three kinds of Cardamom ; the great, the middle, and the lefler. The great is the fame with Grains of Paradife, which are the feed of a. plant, contained in a fort of pod or fig, of a tolerably good red colour; the feed itfelf being triangular, and fomewhat reddifh without, but white within, efpecially when it is frefh. The middle Cardamom-plant has its leaves pointed, indented, and growing three together like trefoil. Its pods or husks are two or three inches long, and of a triangular figure. The feed alfo is triangular, a little furrow’d, and fiat at the end. The plant creeps upon the ground without rifing much above it. The lefier Cardamom is gather’d in the kingdom of Cananory upon a mountain about iS or 20 miles from the fea; this being the only place in the world where it grows. Its husk is triangular, of a colour between white and greyifh, a little furrow’d, and much fmaller than thofe of the middle Cardamom, containing feveral very final! rough grains, a!molt like fo much meal. The land where this plan tgrows is exceeding valuable, as requiring no cul¬ tivation nor fowing, nothing more being requifite to make it produce than to burn up the weeds after the rains, which caufe them to grow, are fallen. The fun foon dries and fits them for this purpofe} and their afhes enrich the ground, and difpofe it to yield Cardamom. But nearly the whole crop of that which is fine and molt valuable is confirmed in the Eafi j the Inhabitants ufing it to feafon their rice: a fmall quantity however is brought into Europe by thzEngliJb and Dutch Ships. Diet, de Commerce.$