PHARMACOPG:IAL VEGETABLE DRUGS. 
This historical record of the plant is made complete by that unex- 
celled authority, E. M. Holmes, of London, his paper being published 
in full in the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, London, De- 
cember 14, 1889, pp. 468-471. The name by which it is now recognized 
was given to the plant by Jacquin (388a) in honor of Dr. Johann An- 
ton Scopoli, professor of botany in the University of Pavia, who (1760) 
published his discovery of the plant under the name Atropa caule her- 
baceo, (See Lloyd Brothers’ Drug Treatise No. X for biographical 
sketch.) Many are the names since affixed to it, regarding which Mr. 
Holmes remarks as follows: “Jacquin’s name has unfortunately been 
several times altered by succeeding botanists.” 
The historical treatise of Holmes was briefly condensed as follows 
by Professor Maisch: 
“The Natural History of Scopola carniolica (Jacquin)” gives a complete 
history of the synonymy of this plant, commencing with Matthioli, who in 1563 
named it Solanum somniferum alterum. It was further described in 1622 by 
Caspar Bauhin under the name of Solanum somniferum bacciferum; in 1651 by 
J. Bauhin as Solanum manicum, “quod secundo loco proponuimus ;” in 1760 by 
J. A, Scopoli, Professor of Botany at Pavia, as Atropa caule herbaceo folits 
ovatis, integris, fructu capsulari; in 1764 by Jacquin as Scopola carniolica; 
in 1767 by Linneus as Hyoscyamus Scopolia; in 1794 by Moench as Scopola 
trichotoma; in the same year by Schultes as Scopolina atropoides; in 1821 by 
Link as Scopolia atropoides ; and in 1837 by G. Don as Scopolia carniolica. 
The generic name Scopolia had been applied in 1763 by Adanson for what 
is now Kicotia, Lin., Crucifere; in 1776 by Forster for what is now Griselinia, 
Forst., Cornacee; in 1781 by Linnzus fil., for what is now Daphne, Lin., Thy- 
melacee; in 1790 by Smith for what is now Toddalia, Juss., Rutacee. 
Jacquin’s name for the plant being the first binomial one published after 
the date of the first edition of Linnzus’ Species Plantarum in 1753, should 
supersede the later names given by others. This author repeatedly writes 
“Scopola” (not Scopolia) in his published work. 
This plant, possessing so much energy, was naturally known to the 
early herbalists, but was most cautiously employed by them. Wier 
(1515-1588) mentioned it (Maisch), but it was then forgotten until 
Dr. Lippich, of Padua (1834-7), used it instead of belladonna. The 
record shows that (4102) in Southern Europe (Martius, 1832) the 
leaves were used in the same way as belladonna. Kosteletzky (1832) 
states (361a) that it has the narcotic qualities of hyoscyamus. Neither 
in domestic nor in professional medicine had scopolia any reputation 
worth mentioning until after 1880, when its alkaloidal record and its 
many complications as a sophisticant for belladonna made such an event 
in pharmacy and chemistry as to give the plant a position in the U, S. 
Pharmacopeia of 1900. 
SCUTELLARIA 
Scutellaria laterifiora ( skullcap) was in use as a domestic remedy 
before the publication of the first American materia medica, as shown 
by Schopf (582), 1785. It was afterward conspicuous in the practice 
of a local physician, Dr. Lawrence Van Derveer, of New Jersey, who 
discovered the qualities that he believed it carried. At least he made 
no mention of any previous therapeutic record ( 388d). Dr. Van Der- 
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