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CINNAMOMUM, CASSIA (Cinnamon) 

 Official, in every edition of the Pharmacopeia, from 1820. 



Probably this is the first spice sought in the com- 

 merce of the Orient or from the Indian Ocean, its early 

 record being lost in antiquity. It is mentioned as a 

 precious spice in the Psalms, Proverbs, Ezekiel, Reve- 

 lation, etc., and by the ancient historians Theophrastus 

 (633), Herodotus (314a), Galen, (254a), Dioscorides, 

 (194), Pliny (514), Strabo, and others. No distinction 

 was then drawn between cinnamon and cassia, the dif- 



