American journal of pharmacy . king toward the dismissal of these products, there should be athorough and extended examination made of them chemically andtherapeutically. THE SOY Henry this Journal for June, 1896, the writer published a summary ofthe literature of this bean, which bean is of especial interest to phar-macists because of the digestive ferment said to exist in it. Recentlythe U. S. Department of Agriculture has issued Farmers Bulletin , entitled The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop, by Thomas A. Wil-liams, under the direction of F. Lamson-Scribner, with an appen
American journal of pharmacy . king toward the dismissal of these products, there should be athorough and extended examination made of them chemically andtherapeutically. THE SOY Henry this Journal for June, 1896, the writer published a summary ofthe literature of this bean, which bean is of especial interest to phar-macists because of the digestive ferment said to exist in it. Recentlythe U. S. Department of Agriculture has issued Farmers Bulletin , entitled The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop, by Thomas A. Wil-liams, under the direction of F. Lamson-Scribner, with an appen-dix on Soy Beans as Food for Man, by C. Y. Langworthy, Am. Jour. Pn>« 1897. Sojf Bean, 585 While not addinfr anything new to the knowledge of the digestiveferment, still there is so much valuable information in the report asto make it desirable to reproduce it in abstract. General Characteristics and Origin.—The Soy Bean, Glycine his-pida, previously, but incorrectly, called soja bean, is a leguminous. Soy bean : a, flowering branch (reduced -3); b, one of the flowers(enlarged); c, pods of soy bean (reduced ]). plant, native of Southeastern Asia. De Candolle says that it orig-inally occurred in the wild state in the region from Cochin Chinato the south of Japan and to Java It has been cultivated fromvery ancient times, and in some countries, notably Japan, it is a veryimportant food plant, an 1 its cultivation has reached such an 586 Soy Bean, {Woil^^^^?: advanced stage that innumerable varieties and forms have beendeveloped. Professor Rein says it is the most important legume inextent of varieties, uses, and value grown in China or Japan. It issupposed to have been used for food in China even before the timeof Confucius. Although it has been grown in China and Japan forsuch an extended period, its cultivation seems to have spread veryslowly to the surrounding countries. Its introduction into Indiaseems to have taken place in comparatively modern times
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