421 
The Camphor is found to lodg 
c 
y where in the interdices of th 
fibres of the wood, alfo in the pith, but moil abundantly 
o 
crevices 
d knots of 
cut d 
his tree ; which 
bark taken off. 
obt 
d fp 
5 
mu 
vhich in the Malay language are called Cop alia 
d 
ft be 
I'he larger pieces 
a 
from the upper part of th 
iiet (belly), and laftiy tha 
P 
procured by rafp 
1 
afterwards the final 
re fir ft picked 
o 
i 
t which 
adhe 
to the wood 
m 
,d 
d 
is 
•> 
denominated Ca 
feet 
This native Camohor 
w 
c„ 
Q 
v 
nd fold, even to th 
In the Earl, i 
does not fuiier fo much lofs or change, on expofu 
d from woody fi 
apanefe, at a y< 
f u me d 
ry high p 
that imp 
purer a 
/3 
from J 
? 
d appears in every refpe£t 
a 
luable medicine. h From th 
^ 
likewife exudes 
rather 
refmous 
oily or 
great eftimation for 
inflammatory tumo 
fluid 
amed oil of Camphor; 1 which is of 
ufe in relieving pains, and refolving 
Of the other vegetables which yield Camphor, we have already 
iced the Laurus Cinnamon, to which might be added feveral othe 
which contain fome proportion of this fubftanc 
k 
The Camphor brought to Europe is to be confidered as the elTential 
• ' 
of the tree here reprefented, obtained at J 
fublimation 
by a kind of dif- 
Rhy 
i 
d for this purpofe the root is faid by T 
be the only part employed ; but according to Cle\ 
m 
the 
Camphor is procured not only from the root, but alfo from the 
young branches ; and by Ksempfer and Thunberg both the root and 
wood are mentioned as affording this valuable medicine. 11 
*r, and the author of Flora Cochinchinenfis, * inform 
us, that this tree, which is called Tchang^ grows in China to 
Abbe Grofi 
imme 
fize 
an 
V. Rademacher in Verb 
and the former Hates the procefs for obtaining the 
127. 
bet Batavifch Genootfcbap. d. Weten 
^^w^v,..^ M-rtwmtn*. van nei naiavijcn \jenootjcimp. a. IVetens. vol. 2. p. 
See authors cited above, and Ten Rhyne Litt. ad Jac. Breynium in Prodr. p. 1 3. 
* Of thefe we might cite many of the Verticillatae, as fage, rofemary, lavender, hyfTop, 
pepper-mint, and many others : Chenopodium ambrofioides, Achillea Millifolium & 
1 A * ^ rf"^ 
Agerstum, Unxia 
Thym 
H.c. 
773) 
particularly Schcenanthus perficus, (Kaempf. 
(Grimm in Eph. n. c. Dec. 2. an. 3. p. 409 
*f- vol 33. p. 321.) Radix Enulae (Malouin Cbemie med. torn. 1. * 
pratenlis 
m 
cubebae 
Epb.N.apec2.a.io.p. 79 . "Kaempf. l.c.p.772. Thunb.FIor.Japon.p.yi 
He fays, « Habitat frequens, & inculta, non minus in China, quam injapo 
No 
P 
v.i.p.250 
Campho] 
