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time to the native doctors of the aborigines of Brazil, and it has 

 been used extensively by the Brazilian physicians. John Alves de 

 Canerio, an eminent physician, submitted it to the Academy of 



Fig. i. Jacaranda Caroba. One Branch of a Compound Leaf. A Pinna or Leaflet. 



Natural Size. 



Medicine at Paris, and from this introduction it was described in 

 the Materia Medica. Mr. Camillo Weber, a licensed apothecary of 

 Leipzig, Rio de Janerio and Montevideo, during his sixteen years 

 residence in Brazil and South America, became acquainted with the 

 extensive use which the resident physicians made of the Caroba leaf. 

 By his recommendation it was introduced into Hamburg by J. Von 

 der Heide, an apothecary.* 



The tree grows to a height of from 30 to 40 feet. The root is 

 externally of a dark red, internally of a yellowish white color. The 



*Dr. Ottoker Alt. Hamburg, in the Pharmaceutical Zeitung, Bunzlau, Berlin. 



