Category: History - Other
Pharmacographia A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India
=History=—The word _sumbul_, which is Arabic and signifies _an ear_ or _spike_, is used as the designation of various substances, but especially of _Indian Nard_, the rhizome of _Nardostachys Jatamansi_ DC. Under what circumstances, or at what period, it came to be applied to...