From:
Sir Joseph Banks
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
9 Dec 1814
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/1/90, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:
At a loss on the subject of Hermodactyls, [an ancient Greek medicine], but is of the opinion that the gout medicine is composed of that root and that Dr Wilson of Yoxford, Suffolk, who has a medicine similar in taste and smell to that of the French, uses 'Colchicum'. Doubts whether 'Colchicum autumnale' is the same as that used in the Greek Pharmacopoeia. Asks Smith whether any of [John] Sibthorp's papers have any information on the Hermodactyl of the Greeks.
Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London