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apparuit rubicundior, ad nigredinem veluti quandam inclinans, eam 
striis albicantibus, instar linearum per totum Catechu subjectum 
excurrentibus, itemque ponderosior compacturque. di/era a me visa 
fuit compacta, nec ita colorata, colore potius ad albedinem inclinante, 
porosior item, levioris ia digitis quoque frangi 7 terrique 
sustinens, nec Rae rubicundioris, ceu altera, adeo ferax. 
Other differences are Bas Whether the pale variety alluded to 
be the cutch of North India I am unable to say. May it not be the 
Gambier cutch ? If so, this will be a very early notice of that drug, 
In another chapter of ‘‘ De Electione rear ” the writer says :— 
“ Usus obtinuit, ut si de notis bonitatis indijudicandis medicinalibus 
certiores esse velimus, ad manus asservemus exemplum quoddam, ad 
quod tanquam ad Lydium lapidem pensiculanda pensiculemus eaque 
si bonitate cum examplo conveniant, retineamus sin minus, averse— 
mur. Hine cum dux hactenus Catechu species sese mihi obtulerint, 
illam putaverim alteri preferandam, que saturatiori se commendat 
rubedine, quze compactior, que ponderosior, quaque minus participat 
de lapillis, seminibus, lignis aliisque inibi interdum repiriri solitis. 
Qui fini etiam apud aromatarios jam receptum est, ut integros 
Catechu globos prius malleo contundant, visuri, quenam sit species, 
ne pallidiore et viliore ob metum adulterationis, qua Japonenses ut 
plurimum malt audiunt, emptores defraudent. 
“Sec. 2. Notaritamen expedit, suggerente id qualicunque experi- 
entia mea utramque suam mavere posse laudem : Rubicundiorem cum 
opus est pocudiaek ‘seliatde adstrictione ; Pallidiorem vero, ubi magis 
precipitandi et absorbendi, humores vitosos intentio est, modo prius 
probe & lapillis et depuretur.” 
Section 3 is devoted to the ‘ Pharmaccutica’ ; section 4 to ‘ Thera- 
peutica.’ 
One prescription may be quoted, for it gives an example of the 
early use of the word chocolat— 
BY Conserv. rosar-antigq. ive as “a os 
Flor borrag “ es we ss. 
Chocolat 7. ae een eee eer 41 
Catechu se “ve tai ers oe ee he 
Ving a q. Ss cum ,°, cinnam, rosar. 4, g. j. M. sic viro 
rimario . EES ventriculi, qua premodum con- 
scctahaine. (By G. Claridge Druce, Pharm, Journ., Jan. 1892,) 
