Grab the closest book and open to page 123, find the fifth sentence and write the next three sentences, and thentag five of your lj friends.
This is more a random event than insight into my psyche, as being a book person my desk is always buried in potential stock. But here we go.
From Origin and History of all the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs with Bibliography by John Uri Lloyd.
Cubebs occur in the German lists of medicines of Frankfort and Nordlingen, about 1450 and 1480; they are also mentioned in the in the Fonfectbuch of Hans Folcz of Nuremberg, dating about 1480.
"It cannot, however, be said that cubebs were a common spice, at all comparable with pepper or ginger, or even in such frequent use as grains of paradise of galangal. Garcia de Orta (1563), speaks of them as but seldom used in Europe; yet they are named by Saladinus as necessary to be kept in every apotheca.
Hmm, a bit on the dry side.
Sorry about that.
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