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CHAP. IL 
Of Barks. 
A R T I C. I. Of ClNNAMO N. 
T HERE was a very near Affinity between 
the Cinnamon of the Ancients and their Caf- 
fia, if we may not rather fuppofe they were the 
Produce of the fame Tree. 
The Greek Writers diftinguiffi two principal 
Kinds of Caffia .{.viz,) I. KaAcc (rugiyl; or 
Caffia fifiula or fiftularis , which was nothing but 
the Bark of a Tree convoluted into Tubes. 2 . £u- 
K ourlcc or guA oxocirloi, Caffia lignea , which was 
the fmall Branches of a Tree entire with the Bark 
upon them. This Diofcorides calls (3Aarok po<rv\i ' tvs, 
the Mofylitic Branch. 
Caffia fiftularis i according to Galen , was very 
common and fold extremely cheap, and was the 
Sort which both the older and younger Androma- 
chus required in the Compofition of their Theriaca *. 
The other Species of Caffia or Xylocajfia , of which 
Galen enumerates many, were much fcarcer. 
* Eor this the modern Greeks fubftituted what they, and we 
after them, term Caffia lignea ; though very improperly, fince 
ic is only a Bark. It was perhaps an entire Stranger to the 
Ancients ; for although M. Geoffrey in his Account of it con- 
jectures, that among fo many Sorts of Caffia, this might poffi- 
bly be known to them ; yet he obferves, that neither Diofce- 
rides ; nor Galen have mentioned its Sliminefs upon being chew- 
ed, which is fo remarkable, that it would fcarce have efcaped 
their Notice. However, this bark has continued down to our 
Time an Ingredient in the < Iberiaca> See. but the College have 
now expunged it, and ordered in its Stead an additional Quantity 
of Cinnamon. 
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