4H 
nefs, and a flronger fmell than that of the 
n 
Boiled in water, it impregnates the liquor with its fmell, b 
in fubftance. 
out little 
a fmali proporti 
g 
o 
of its fubfl 
f a limpid 
diftilled with wate 
Rives 
ITential 
oil, in fm 
) 
yields 
d in tafte moderately pungent. Re&ihed fp 
ell very fragrant, 
ilfo 
diftillation, the more volatile od 
of the Maftich 
n 
in 
It 
fin 
common practice with the Turkifh women to chew this 
fpecially 
the morning, not 
nly to 
der their breath 
more agi 
but to whiten the teeth, and ftrengthen the g 
f 
they alfo mix it with their fragrant waters, and burn it. with other 
doriferous fubftances in the way of fumigation. 
As a 
d aftr 
m 
dicine, Maftich is 
fidered to be a mild corroborant 
ent 
9 
and as poiTefhng a balfamic power, it has be 
commended in hagmoptyfis, proceeding from ulceration, fluor albu 
and internal ulcers. 8 
»i 
ftomach 
d in diarrhoeas 
drug h 
lil 
cew 
ife b 
to h 
c\ 
be 
f 
e in 
it is 
debility of th 
Chewing this 
pains of the teeth and gums, and in fome catarrhal compl 
now however feldom ufed either externally or internally. 
The Lentisc i lignum, or wood of this tree, is received into the 
Materia Medica of fome of the foreign Pharmacopoeias, and is highly 
extolled in dyfpeptic, gouty, hemorrhagic, and dyfenteric affecl;ions. k 
Lewis, M. M. p. 413 
* Lib, cit. 
D 
e^ner 
(de dyfenterict. p 
fully 
way 
h 
See Ephem. Nat. Cur. Dec. 3. A. 9. 10. Obf. 135. where it is dignified 
title of vegetable aurum potabile. 
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