5*5 
Balfam to th 
of 
others to that of a mixture of 
c. 
and fage flowers. The chief mark of its goodnefs is faidVbe7ounded 
on 
this, that when dropped on water it fpreads itfelf all over the fur. 
forming a thin pellicle, tough enough to be taken up upon the p 
^ace 
and fl 
pin, and at the fame time impregnating the water with its fmell 
1 ^ m c 
It appears on fcripture authority, that the 
f 
g 
and ufe 
i 
this drug remounts to very early ages,' as it feems coeval with the 
India trad 
c. 
pepp 
T 
u 
Hill attributed to it bv 
enumerate all the virtues and medicin 
nations, 
uld b 
bounds of all rational credibility : but they who are defirous of 
ging the 
formation may be gratified by confulting Alp 
ficians confid 
to b 
not eflentially difl 
fr 
European phy 
om 
efin 
fluids, or turpentines, efpecially as we find it imported here 
therefore generally 
it is 
d, that the Canad 
and Copaiva balfams 
gu 
nfwer every purpofe for which it can be employed. In Turkey 
ot only in high efteem as a medicine, but alfo as an odoriferous 
flecis with refped to its lait-mentioned 
ent 
d cofi 
its 
d merely on its ft 
ufe feem to 
obferved by Lady Mary Wortley Montag 
1< 
g the ik 
for it 
is 
th 
had ufed the Balfam, her face became red and fwoll 
the day aft 
fhe 
i ■ 
an inconve 
hich fhe fuffered for three day 
z 
- 
• This tell of the goodnefs of the B 
be depended upon, as feveral refinous fluids, and even oil of juniper,, produce the fame 
phenomena. 
f Balm and Myrrh were carried by the Iihmaelites to Egypt. See Gen. c. xxxvil.v. 25,. 
s See /. c. 
Th 
e high opinion entertained of its virtues we learn from the following verfe in 
Jerei liah : ** is there no balm in Gilead? is there no phyfician there ? why then, is not 
the health of the. daughter of my people recovered? " ch.. viii, ver. 22,, 
TOLUIFERA BALSAMUM 
V 
