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Preparations, 1878, the subject being confined to this 

 publication during 1877 and 1878. Dr. Bundy stated 

 in his paper, 1878, as follows: "A description of the 

 Cascara I am unable to give at this time, but suffice it 

 to say that it is a shrub, and in due time its botanical 

 name will be known." Dr. Bundy neglected, however, 

 to concern himself further in the matter. 



In the fall of 1878, Dr. C. H. Adair, of Colusa, Cali- 

 fornia, a partner of Dr. Bundy, sent to this writer 

 specimens of the bark, and botanical specimens of the 

 tree yielding it. These were identified by Mr. Curtis G. 

 Lloyd as Rhamnus Purshiana. This fact was an- 

 nounced in a paper titled "Some Specimens of Western 

 Plants," presented to the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association at its meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, No- 

 vember, 1878, (Proceedings, 1879, p. 707), and com- 

 pleted the drug's history. 



NAMES. Dr. Bundy supplied the drug under the 

 Spanish name "Cascara Sagrada," a term said to have 

 been in local use throughout some sections of California. 

 This came to be the common name of the drug, and will 

 surely dominate all others as long as the drug is in use. 

 The anglicized name, "Sacred Bark," has also been 

 applied to the drug, the Scriptural term "Chittim 

 bark" being also employed in early days in some parts 

 of California. These last names are now obsolete. 



At the present date, this drug is employed in every 

 civilized country and is recognized in medical, pharma- 

 ceutical, and chemical literature the world over. To 

 give detailed references to it would require a volume 

 in space. 



The pharmacy and chemistry of cascara sagrada 

 is now voluminous, its record lying in the field of 



