Volume 2

Lectures on the materia medica containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing / Published from the manuscript of the late Dr. Charles Alston ... by John Hope.

Charles Alston

Date:: 1770

Credit: Lectures on the materia medica containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing / Published from the manuscript of the late Dr. Charles Alston ... by John Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$« burn in Mamps: but they make no candles of,it ; neither are candles ufed “© by any but the king.” Thus Knox. See An hiftoriea! relation of the ifland of Ceylon in the Ea Indies. By Robert Knox, a captive: there near twenty years. London, 168t. in folio. ‘* That it may be the beft cinnamon, the tree oughe ~ & neither to be too young ‘nor too ele, and, that it be beige: the-middie bark.” Ribeyro. Harris Col. ii. 456. Ps < ‘¢ The Dutch having, anno ae vide rhemfelves enters of Céylon, by _ “ driving thence the Portuguefe, (who for more than 100 years monopolized '« the cinnamon tfade), and having in 1661 deftroyed the cinnamon-trees of “© Cochin, though but a wild: kind, all the cinnamop confumed in Europe. «comes from Hollasd. It is fold at Amfterdamat between forty and fixty _ © ftivers per pound.” Vid. Savary Did. 1. 531. 973. & ill. 144. » N.B. “ Caffia cinamomea aligquoties a meex Zeylan in Belgiam tranfmiffa, ~* viguit in horto Bentingiano, Beverningiano & noftro ad fecundum, ter- ‘* tiumve annum, quo incidente bruma rigidiori internt.’ 22. Za poo Are: “¢ bor hec vetita, Europa Oras falutavit nunquam ; nec hortis noftris grata ‘* fuit unquam hofpes, nec facile erit ullius.” H. Cliff 154. It is a fpecies of the laurus, as are alfo faffafras, benzoin, camphora, but carries. both flowers and fruit, or is an hermaphrodite, and does not fpecifically differ from the caffia lignea tree, which is accurately defcribed and figured by the name Carua, in H. Mal. tom. i. p. 107. tab. 59. It is Kurundu Zeylanenfibus, i. L.. 130. Cinnamon is a thin, light, reddith- brown!’ batk, rolled up in long quills, of a pleafant, biting, aromatic feet tafle, and fragrant delightful {mell. ‘6 Sac ““* poris acri, pungente, fuavi, fubdulci, & aromatico, cum blando Jentore‘in ‘* receflu, praecipue fi recens fit ; odore fragrantiflimo.”’ Herm. M.S. “ Sa- “© pore acuto, aromatico, acri, dulci ; odore. fragrantifiimo & fuavi.” Adin. M.S. “ Of a delightful aromatic fmell, and a pleafant, fweet, biting tafte.?? Miller Bot. p. 139. ‘*Sapore acri pungente, fed fine moleftia ; fubdulci & «¢ aromatico eratiflimo; odore fuavi & tragrantiffimo. si) Geoff. 1 il, 164, 2. Canella ‘Malabarica, Xylocaffia, & caffia lignea, Off. cinamomum (cin- namomum) five canella Malabarica & Javanenfis. B. P. 409. (R. H. 1560.) Caffia lignea officinarum. Park. 1580. C. lignea fufca ; aromatici & glutinofi faporis, ¥. B. i. 455 C. vulgaris, Calihacha dicta. Pif, M. Arom. 165. Arbor canellifera Malabarica ,; cortice ignobiliore, cujus folium Malabathrum offici- narum. Breyn. Prod. i. p. 18. Caflia lignea, Offic. Dale. 299. Carua. H. Mal. tom. 1. p. 107. tab. 59. (57. Hl. Cuff.) Caffia Malabarica. H. LZ. 130, The cinnamon-tree of Malabar, and Malabar cinnamon, or caffia lignea, omitted in the London M. M. “© Cinamomum luxuriat in infula Zeylan ; caffia flores in Malabara, Su-. *¢ matra, Java, & Fran. Hernande tefte in infulis Philippinis. Caffia vero “6° Malabarica, cum in H. M. tom. 1. p. 107. Nomine Caruz, accuratiflime ‘* defcribitur, & a Zeylanica tantum acrimonia, fuavitate, & virtutis preftan- “* tia, meutiquam facie, madove creicendi difcriminatur.—Supervacaneum | “© duxi hajus defcriptionem hic apponere, ” H.L. 130. Some fay that the Malabar cinnamon, tranfplanted into Ceylon, turns true cinnamon, as if all the difference were owing to the locus natalis.” ** J. B. fcribit. caffiam lig- ““ neam, faporem {uum aromaticum (qui in cinnamomo paulatim evanetcit), **-con-.$