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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$Cajjia lignea, Woody Caffia *. Its Bark. Gajjimunair [Cafmunar.] Its Root. Cauda equina [Equifetum] Horfe-Tail, The Plant. Centaur him majus \ Greater! Cen-fits Root .-minus) Leffer Jtory. cThe Plant. Centinodium [Polygonum] Knot-gfafs. The Plant Cepay Onion. Its Root Cerafus nigra, the black Cherry-tree. Its Fruit and Gum. Ceterach [Afpleniumy Scolopendria] Spleenwort. The Herb. Chczrefoliumy Chervil. Chameedrys \jTriJJag6\ Germander.-} Cbamcepitys [ Iva Arthritica J >The Plant. Ground-Pine. 3 Cbamremelum nobile, Camomile. The Herb, and Flowers. Cheiri [Leucoium luteum] Wall-flower* Its Flowers. Chelidonium majus, the greater ?-pjle pjant Celandine. r i r> . ■pj*•* \ and Root ——* ——• minus y Pile wort. j Cbermes [Kermes.] Its Berries. China. Its Root. China * Cajjia lignea is efteem’d a fpecies of Cinnamon; and what countenances this fuggeftion, like Cinnamon it grows no where but in the Ifland Ceylon. The truth is, it ap¬ proaches very near to Cinnamon in its volatile or oily part $ but differs from it in the reft, as much as it does in the price. However, when the fine, fmall, pungent fticks are pick’d out from the others, and mix’d among Cinna¬ mon, ’tis exceeding difficult to diftinguifh between the two? as feme dealers very well know.$