Show all countries are drawn upon for chemists goods in order to fill the drawers and bottles of an ordinary chemists shop there is hardly a country which is not drawn upon toe for some ingredient or drug castor oil is made from the seeds of the castor bean a plant which grows well in any tropical country but the best oil comes from the plants grown in india aloes from which aloin is prepared is the juice squeezed from the thick prickly leaves of a variety of aloe the best comes from arabia but much is grown tor for medical purposes in the west indies the juice dries into solid blocks in which state it is imported into thi this 1 s country says london answers magazine the rhubarb from which pills are made is not that with which we make tarts in the spring in the trade it is known as turkey rhubarb but it is really the root of a plant principally grown in china quinine is the bark of the cin cin chona tree and licorice much used for coughs and sore throats is mostly grown in italy |