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from all time, as a flavor and a stomachic. Several 

 forms of cardamom are found in the bazaars of Turkey 

 and Arabia, where it is brought by means of caravans. 

 It is largely cultivated at the present time as an article 

 of commerce. This writer found (1906) "large" carda- 

 mom seeds strung on strings and sold by count in bazaars 

 in Smyrna and elsewhere in Asia Minor. 



CARUM (Caraway, Caraway Seed) 

 Official in all editions of the Pharmacopeia, from 1820 to 1910. 



Although the home of caraway (Carum Cam') appears 

 to have been in the northern and midland parts of Eu- 

 rope and Asia, it was known to the Arabians, and at an 

 early date was introduced into England. In German 

 domestic medicine of the twelfth and thirteenth cen- 

 turies the word cumich occurs, which is still the popular 

 name for caraway in Southern Germany. At the close 

 of the fourteenth century caraway was much used in 

 England, where it was largely employed in cooking. It 

 was not used in India in either cooking or medicine, 

 nor does it appear in the record of the early days to 

 have been included among Indian spices. It has a do- 

 mestic reach that dominates its use everywhere. 



The admirable history of caraway, in the Pharmaco- 

 graphia of Fliickiger and Hanbury, is so complete and 

 yet so condensed as to lead us to introduce it, ver- 

 batim, as follows (240) : 



"HISTORY. The opinion that this plant is theKaros 

 of Dioscorides, and that, as Pliny states, it derived its 

 name from Caria, (where it has never been met with in 

 modern tunes), has very reasonably been doubted. 



"Caraway fruits were known to the Arabians, who 

 called them Karawya, a name they still bear in the 



