FOLIA CAROB^E. 



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The medicinal properties of the tree are found principally in 

 the leaves, and their beneficial effects have been known for a long 

 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 

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

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

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



Fig. 2. Epidermal Hairs and Glands from the Caroba Leaf, a, Hairs 

 from the Under Surface, b, Hairs from the Upper Surface. 

 a and b Magnified 100 diameters, c, Glands. Mag- 

 nified jOO diameters. 



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, apothecary.* 



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



