84 GUTTIFER.E. 



Peru, the latter strange name no doubt being a corruiDtion of the above 

 mentioned Ghitta-iemon. The appellation "gummi de Peru"ismet\Yith 

 m pharmaceutical tariffs during the iTth and ISth centuries. 



Gamboge is one of the articles of the tariff of the pharmaceutical 

 shops of the City of Frankfort in 1612: "Gutta gemou, a strong purga- 

 tive dried juice, cominer from the Kinordom of Patana in the East 



Indies." Patana or Patani is the 



coast of the peninsula of Malacca. The Dutch established there a 

 factory in 1602, and were followed in 1612 by the English The 

 settlement was abandoned in 1700 ; gamboge was probably brouglit 

 there from the opposite shore of the gulf of Siara.^ 



In 1615, a considerable quantity of gamboge was offered for sale m 

 London by the East Indian Company. The entry respecting it in tbe 

 Court Mmute Books of the company under date October IS, 1615, is to 

 this effect:— Three chests, one rundlet, and a basket, containing U 

 ii, or lo hundredweights, more or less, of Camhoqium "a druM 



iinhnown Aere,"— tlie use of which was much commended as a "« geni^^ 

 purge, were offered for sale at 5s. per lb., but met with no purchaser. 



Jacob Bontius,2 a Dutch physician, resident, towards 1629, i" 

 Batavia, stated that " gutta Cambodia," as he termed the drug, came 

 Irom the country of the same name; he supposed it to be derived from an 

 -b.uphorbiaceous plant. 



I0i<\ 

 as a 



Parkinson/ who was an apothecary of London and wrote in 

 speaks 01 this " Cambugio;' called by some Catharticum mmun<.> - 

 drug ot recent importation which arrived in the form of " ivreaths o- 

 Toules yellow within and without. 



Gamba* or GJdtta jemou. 



Pharmacojyce 



lied Guff" 



untiT 1 S^4 . P^^VJ ^^^ ^r«g was not fully examined and Gg^f 

 "n Cevlon i If '^ \^7 ^^^^^^^3^' Hermann, a German physician residing 

 m Ceylon, had pointed out that it was a Garcinia.' 



Secretion — We 



diamA+^t- .^f fi, 1 ^^a-minea a portion ot a brancn two n^^^^- 



beTontainpH ol^r^'^fx:^^'"^'' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^"nd the yellow guni-resjn ^ 

 like thoi n^ ^ -^^ • ^ *> ^i^dl^ layer of the bark in numerous ducfe 

 Ike those occurring in the roots nf tL,l, tt.u^a..^ .r.A nther roots of 



the ^nma r.o+ 1 ** 1 '^'^c iuots 01 inuLa UeLemum and otnei i^-- 

 of the onf^l /i^'^'"'- .^ 1^^^^^ i« al«o secreted in the dotted vessel 

 t white tn-'^ ^""^f .^^.^^^^ ^^°d, and in the pith. The wood, ^M 

 ^^^S:::?^^^^^,^^ ^^- -^-'e^posed to the vapour of 



Hav 



and place aTolnt fyl ^°"^^ ^^^^ ^"^^ circumference of the trui-. 

 ^ place a joint of bamboo to receive the sap which slowly exudes for 



<fe- ?SfcS, fsvrrr' ^"'" ^^^'-^--^-^''^ or extraa o/ rhuharh. It is still ^PP^^*^ '" 



^^^^^ ^^edicijia Indorum HK ,V t. ^ ■ gamboge. ^ . vxiv 



Batav. (1642) 119. 150 ' J^^^g^um * Hanbury iu Trans, of Linn. SoC^^^ 



I Theatrum Botankum (1640) 157^ ^ol^^ ^^7. tab. 50; also Science F^r 



Shenff iSu,.pt. to p^^ »/yi,, mI/S S^S"!-™- 



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