PHARMACEUTICAL STUDIES 19 



1617 



It was inevitable at the outset that the medicinal interest 

 of herbs should be much to the fore. Botanical lore was 

 practically confined to physicians, apothecaries, and herbalists ; 

 and perhaps this strong human interest supplied the motive 

 power for the beginnings of the science of botany. All 

 English botany books of early days were practically treatises 

 on Materia Medica, and even Parkinson found a medicinal 

 use for nearly every plant. 



Goodyer's development took the same course. The 



notes made during his early period show that a medicinal 



interest in herbs was certainly present to his mind, though 



it may not have provided the principal incentive to his 



studies. In 161 7 he abstracted the names of forty-six 



exotic medicinal plants and products from Lobel's writings, 



and added the following list of drugs : 



Terra sigillata Tartar 



Gum Elemni Ladanum 



Aurmi vulgar Castor 



Virga aurea Paeina ppi 



Mirrh Bac mirti 



Bolus armenic Acacia 



Caious Spodium 



Borax Bdellium 

 Litharg. auri 



And on 28 April 161 7 he added : 



2. Corall dissolved & swetned with Juyce of Granates 

 Syrup of Rheubarbe made of ye extracte 

 The Extracte of Rhubarbe 

 Pearle dissolved 



Liquor solutionis Scamonii 1610 23 Marcij 

 Balsamum 



Scamonium corrected 1610 23 Marcij 

 Hirae simpl. oiiij pro quat. viribus 

 Manna 2 oz. 

 Santali Citrini incisi oiij 

 Olibanum 

 Epithimum 5ij 

 Oximel simpl. 

 Dia Codion simp. 

 Dia moron. 



de Laune in y« black friers. 



C 3 



[MS. f. 24 



