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fro m 
abuiid 
the r< 
the j 
ft 
L 
L 
s of the ftem, but more generally and in g 
making an incifion in the ftalk a few inch 
aboTe 
from which it immediately ifTues, and foon becomes fuffi 
ntly concrete to be gathered 
Galbanum is commonly imported into England from Turkey, and 
from the Eail-Indi 
#3 
foftiili dudtile pale-coloured maffeSjWhich 
by age acquire a brownilh yellow appearance ; thefe are intermixed with 
diftinct white grumes or tears, which are accounted the bell part of the 
mafs 5 but the feparate hard tears are externally of a ferruginous colour, 
and always preferred to the mafs itfelf. Geoffroy diilinguiihes the for 
Galbanon en larmes,2ind the latter vnX-oGalbanon enp 
Spiel 
mentions a liquid fort of Galbanum, which is brought from Perfia 
*' Proftat etiam interdum Galbanum liquidu 
Perfia, confiftentia 
t 
erebinthinse inilrudlum 
multae fseces nisrrse commixtse funt, tem- 
pore ad fundum fecedentes, odorem refmse, nunquarn Galbani, habet 
Galbanum has a ftrong unpleafant fmell, and a warm bitteriih acrid 
tafte ; " like the other gummy refms it unites with water by tritura- 
tion into a milky liquor, but does not perfedly diiTolve, as fome have 
ported, in water, vmegar, or w 
Redified fpirit takes up 
more than either of thefe menftrua, but not the whole : the tmdure 
is of a bright ffolden colour. A mixture of two parts of redified 
and one of water, diffolves all but the impurities, which 
commonly in confiderable quantity, 
feparates and rifes to the furface 
about one-twentieth of the weight of the Galbanum 
In diftillation with water, ths 
yellowifh, in quantity 
Newman 
obferv 
th 
the empyreum. 
oil 
is 
of 
a 
b 
colour, which 
changes in the air to a purple. 
Galbanum^ medicinally confidered, may be faid to hold= a mi 
rank between Afafoetida and Ammoniacum ; but its fetidnefs is very 
inconfiderable, efpecially when compared with the former, it is there- 
Mat. Med. p. 56 
Lewis's Mat. Med. by Dr. Aikin, p. J14 
r < 
The Galbanum colour was a prevailing faftiion with the Ron 
Reticulumque comis auratum ingentibus implet,* 
Coerulea indutus fcutulata, aut galbana rafa ; Ju 
And Martial, fpeakina: of an efFeminate cerfon, favs, Galb 
.Epig. 97. 
Sat. 2, 1. 96 
Galbanum flower to be of a greeniih 
of Galbana Rafa 
Lib. 
have 
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