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getia, 
to 
whence we are fupplied with th 
us in little gourd -fhells 
Th 
Baifam, which 
1 
i 
Baifam is obtained 
ifions in the bark of the tree, and is colleaed into fp 
made of black wax, fro 
o brought 
by making 
which 
Th 
Baifam is of a reddifh yellow colour, 
hich it is poured into proper veil 
f, 
P 
mi con 
fifteace thick and tenacious : by age it grows fo hard and brittle th 
fmell 
be rubbed into a powder between the fWer and 
extremely frag 
fomewhat 
c 
warm and fweetifh, and on b 
bling that of 
hewed it adh 
Its 
teeth. Thrown into the fire it immediately liquifies, takes flame and 
difperfes its agreeable odour, . Though it does not diflblve in water, 
yet if boiled in it for two or three 
hours 
water receives its odoriferous fmell : water alio fuffers a fi 
ed veflel, the 
pre 
fi 
the Baifam bv diftillat 
lage it unites with water 
With the afliftan 
of 
as to form a milky fol 
difiolves entirely in fpirit of wine, and eanly mixes with diftilled 
but ids eafily with thofe of the expreffed kind. Diftilled 
addition, it prod 
ithout 
not 
colour, but fometimes a fm 
of the flowers of benzoine 
nly an empyreumatic oil, of a pale dark 
portion of a faline matter, iimilar to 
This Baifam poflefles the fame general virtues with the former and 
that of Peru 
therefore be employed with 
a pectoral, and is faid to be 
ieminal 
iyrupus 
it is however lefs heating and. ftim 
5 
d 
fafety. It has been chiefly ufed 
may 
ffiea 
weaknefles 
orroborant in gleets and 
is directed by the Pharmacopoe 
tin&ura tolutana, & fyrupus balfamicus 
* Mmard. I. c, * 
in 
th 
h s 
ee Murray, Jg>., Med, vol vt. p. u8L 
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