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It is interesting to note, in passing, that the pistil of a flower 
derived its name from its resemblance to the apothecary’s pestle 
(Latin, pistillum, a pounder). 
The studies of those early physicians inevitably began to bifur- 
cate, according to what proved to be the major enthusiasm of the 
student—the disease or the 
. remedy, giving us medicine, 
' pharmacy, and botany, and 
° physicians (as the term is now 
used), pharmacists, and bot- 
anists. 
The Herb Garden of the 
' Brooklyn Botanic Garden con- 
tains both culinary and medic- 
inal herbs. Many herbs, such 
as rhubarb, peppermint, mus- 
tard, Indian corn, and others, 
— 
rave both culinary and medici- 
nal uses. 
A GuIvE to the culinary 
1 1942, 
as the January number of the 
RECORD. 
herbs was published i 
= 
A medicinal plant garden 
= 
was a part of the original plan 

for the development of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
at the left, the resemblance to the 
pistil of a flower with its ovary (the 
mortar), style (handle of the pestle), This did not become possible 
adopted over thirty years ago. 
and stigma (the tip of the pestle). of realization until 1938. Re- 
The words pistil and pestle are both alizing, then, the great extent 
derived from the Latin, pistillion. mets cys : os . 
: to which “biologicals” (e.g. 
(10,632) : rnc ‘ 
pepsin, adrenalin, serums, etc. ) 
jar 
and “chemicals” (e.g. sulphanilamide and other compounds) have 
recently come into medical use, the question arose as to whether 
er 
plants and plant products were now. sufficiently wic 
justify carrying out t 
ely used to 
1e original plan for a garden of medicinal 
— 
plants. After consultation with leading physicians and pharma- 
