366  The  History  of  some  Drugs.        { Arnx^rl8p76arm' 
juice  from  Candia.  In  many  other  tariffs — for  instance,  in  that  of 
Worms,  1609,  and  in  that  of  Copenhagen,  1619 — liquorice  of  Bam- 
berg in  Bavaria  is  quoted,  and  in  Conrad  Gesner's  interesting  work, 
4C  De  Hortis  Germaniae,"  Strassburg,  1561,  p.  164,  the  author  says 
already  that  near  Bamberg  of  liquorice  there  was  "  maximus  eius 
proventus." 
Manna  of  Brianyon,  from  Pinus  larix,  u  Pharmacographia,"  p.  373, 
would  appear  ("  Documente,"  pp.  18  and  30)  not  to  have  been  so  very 
rare  an  article  in  the  second  half  of  the  sixteenth  century  as  it  is  now- 
a-days. 
Mastiche. — From  the  very  exhaustive  information  on  the  history  of 
mastiche  alluded  to  in  the  '*  Pharmacographia,"  I  was  led  to  suppose 
that  resin  to  have  always  exclusively  been  produced  in  the  island  of 
Scio  (Chios),  but  there  is  evidence  ("  Documente,"  pp.  31,  41  and  65) 
that  it  was  also  collected  in  the  island  of  Cyprus. 
Mu:unae  setce — cowhage. — The  pods  and  hairs  of  Mucuna  pruriens 
were  not  much  used  in  England  before  1769  ("  Pharmacographia,"  p. 
166)  ;  they  appear,  however,  to  have  been  employed  as  early  as  1714 
in  Germany,  inasmuch  as  they  are  contained  in  the  list  of  Onolzbach, 
near  Nurnberg  ("  Documente,"  p.  84). 
Among  essential  oils  that  of  bergamot  is  well  worth  noticing  in  the 
"  Catalogus  omnium  medicamentorum  ...  in  officina  pharmaceutica 
£  J.  C.  Scipione  ..."  This  is  the  private  list  of  a  druggist  of 
Giessen,  1688.  There  are  several  lists  recorded  in  my  "  Documente  " 
which  had  been  published  in  the  seventeenth  century  by  German  pharm- 
acists in  order  to  show  what  stores  they  offered  for  sale  ;  no  doubt  this 
was  the  case  with  only  the  most  considerable  pharmaceutical  estab- 
lishments of  the  time.  The  earliest  notice  of  oil  of  bergamot  pointed 
out  in  the  "Pharmacographia,"  p.  109,  referred  to  the  year  1693, 
when  it  was  mentioned  in  "  Le  Parfumeur  Francois."  The  "  Docu- 
mente "  now  trace  it  a  few  years  further  back. 
Oleum  cajuputi  was  to  be  met  in  the  little  town  of  Hof,  east  of 
Coburg,  as  early  as  1726,  a  fact  which  also  is  no  longer  in  full 
accordance  with  the  statements  of  the  "  Pharmacographia." 
Oleum  Matricaria  Chamomillce. — This  oil,  which  is  so  extremely 
remarkable  on  account  of  its  intensely  blue  tint,  had  apparently  never 
been  appreciated  in  England.    In  Germany  it  was  prepared  in  1588 
