Download or read book The American Journal of Pharmacy, 1848, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint) written by Philadelphia College Of Pharmacy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Journal of Pharmacy, 1848, Vol. 14 The locality to which Dioscorides referred the best scam mony was Mysia, a portion of Asia Minor, near the Pontus Euxinus, and he states that this is preferable tothat of Syria and Judea. Matthiolus has stated, that in his day it was brought from Alexandria and Syria by way of Venice. Tournefort (voyage into the Levant) met with the drug at Samos, and stated that the plant shown to him corres ponded to the description of Dioscorides; he says the same of the Syrian plant. Belon met with the plant at Candia, which he says grew wild on the mountains; (ed. 1553, Travels.) M. Hasselquist, a Dutch naturalist, more recently has said that the best comes from Marach, (where resides a Pacha, ) four days'journey from Aleppo, near the frontiers of Armenia, and that he has seen the convolvulus in the valleys between Nazareth and Mount Carmel. Finally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.