Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince.

  • Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    something of the kind when, in speaking of the fraudulent doing of the apothecaries, he says :— Apotecarii, causa lucri, con- cumulaut confectiones et electuaria, radices cum erbis, zedoarium cum zinzibero, piper cum cimino, gariofilos cum cinamomo, anisum cum maratro, ceram cum cereis ecclesiasticis., zucuram cum licuricia. 2. Ammigdalce {amygdalce). Ahnonds. [Philippe le Bel, date Paris, 1st Feb., 1304, forbade the exportation of various articles of merchandise without per- mission of his Government under pain of confiscation. But he makes an exception in favour of edible spices and aromatics, the exportation of which is permitted to friendly states. Not to be exported were wine, honey, pepper, ginger, cinnamon, sugar, galangal, Ahnonds, animals' hides, and metals. In the Liber Albus, probable date of list about A.d. 1266, almonds are included as liable to Scavage. Almonds might be substituted for Pignons {nuclei pinei), in preparing the Pignolat.] 3. Ris, in mediseval Latin, risi, rice. 4. Sucare, sugar.—This commodity at the period under notice used to be imported by way of Italy, from Egypt, Cyprus, and Sicily. 5. Zinsiher (zingiber vel zinziber), ginger, is mentioned in the account as of three kinds, namely, elecfum, commune, and Columhe. The last, which seems to have been of the lowest quality, derived its name Colombinum, from Kulam or Quilon, a port in Travancore, whence it used to be shipped. 6. Canele.—By this term we must understand Cassia hark, 1 either of Malabar, or China, rather than cinnamon, which was < only beginning to be exported from Ceylon, and was probably 1 much more rare and costly. 7. Galonge, galangal.—The value received for 21b. of this spice lis exactly the price of an ox, as reckoned in the account, which J states that fifteen oxen were consumed at the bishop's funeral feast. 8. Nigrum Piper, black pepper. 9. Granum Paradisi, grain of paradise, often termed simply ^grains.—The produce of Tropical Western Africa, whence it I I 1875. Almonds. Ginger. Galangal.