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herbalist - person who wrote of plants pirmarily in respect
to their virtues in the act of healing.
primitive man who drew his animals so graphically, as a rule
ignored his plants. Clearly the latter were of lesser momentm
since they were only to be sought + gathered instead of being
hunted or magically wooed.
Squiell The 2 most important variations in medicine are the white
+ the red. They are differentiated by the size of their bulbs.
The dang is found in the bulb which is collectet in August,
prior to flowering. Squill contians a crystiline glycoside -
scilliarin A Theophrastus + Pliny recommended it was a
Diaretic a Dioscorides advised its use in cases of dropsy +
asthma. Albertus Magnus perscribed it as an emmenagogue.
Its action as the heart was finally discovered in the 18th C.
Sandal wood , the product of the evergreen tree, Santalum album
was mentioned in the Vedic records, + was brought -
probably by the Arabians to Europe in the 11th C. The tree -
which is a partial parasite - forms an important Indian industry
in Mysore + Madras. The wood is exquisitely fragrant, + formerly
an oil was distilled from the book + used in medicine, but the
use of this 'Satal Oil' is now almost confined to perfumery.
The Arabian name for apothecary, saidanani or saidalani, from
the Indian word, tshandan (sandal wood); the name is derived
from the circumstance that the first drug merchants, who
came to Arabia by Sea, Generally dealt in sandal wood.
-According to Klebs Gruninger's 1st ed. served as a model, at
least as far as the illustrations are concerned.
See Schreiber plate 16 (Stanford) not colored.

herbalist - person who wrote of plants pirmarily in respect
to their virtues in the act of healing.
primitive man who drew his animals so graphically, as a rule
ignored his plants. Clearly the latter were of lesser momentm
since they were only to be sought + gathered instead of being
hunted or magically wooed.
Squiell The 2 most important variations in medicine are the white
+ the red. They are differentiated by the size of their bulbs.
The dang is found in the bulb which is collectet in August,
prior to flowering. Squill contians a crystiline glycoside -
scilliarin A Theophrastus + Pliny recommended it was a
Diaretic a Dioscorides advised its use in cases of dropsy +
asthma. Albertus Magnus perscribed it as an emmenagogue.
Its action as the heart was finally discovered in the 18th C.
Sandal wood , the product of the evergreen tree, Santalum album
was mentioned in the Vedic records, + was brought -
probably by the Arabians to Europe in the 11th C. The tree -
which is a partial parasite - forms an important Indian industry
in Myson + Madres. The wood is exquisitely fragrant, + formerly
an oil was distilled from the book + used in medicine, but the
use of this 'Satal Oil' is now almost confined to perfumery.
The Arabian name for apothecary, saidanani or saidalani, from
the Indian word, tshandan (sandal wood); the name is derived
from the circumstance that the first drug merchants, who
came to Arabia by Sea, Generally dealt in sandal wood.
-According to Kleba Graninger's 1st ed. served as a model, at
least as far as the illustrations are concerned.
See Schreibn plate 16 (Stanford) not colored.