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lime-water is ufed by fome aloe boilers during the procefs, „ 
ebullition is too great. He adds, « as to the fun-dried aloe, 
is moll approved for medicinal purpofe 
badoes. 
r—~- ^"^iii*! purpoies, very little is 
1 he procefs is however very fimple, thou 
hen the 
oes which 
very little is made in Bar- 
extremely 
gh 
tedious, 1 he raw juice is either put into bladders, left quite open 
at top, and fufpended in the fun, or in broad (hallow trays of wood 
or tin, expofed alio to the fun every dry day, until all the 
L ""■"*" ' "a perfect refm formed, which is then 
pewter, 
fluid parts are exhaled 
? 
and 
packed up for ufe, or for exportation" 
Thefe accounts of procuring the aloes diff< 
r confiderably from 
that given by Dr. Wright, who fays " Hepatic aloes is obtained 
the following manner. 
»,, "**w xayo ^ i.icjjd.in; aiues is oDtained. in 
The plant is pulled up by the roots and 
It 
is then fliced 
carefully cleanfed from earth or other impurities, 
and cut in pieces into fmall hand-bafkets or nets. Thefe nets or 
bafkets are put into large iron boilers with water, and boiled for ten 
minutes, when they are taken out, and frefh parcels fupplied till the 
liquor 
is 
flrong 
and black. 
At this period the liquor is thrown 
" 
through a ftrainer into' a deep vat, narrow at bottom, to cool, and to 
depofit its feculent parts. Next day the clear liquor is drawn off 
by a cock, and again committed to the large iron veifel. At firft it 
is boiled brifkly, but towards the end the evaporation is flow, and 
requires conftantly ftirring to prevent burning. When it becomes 
of the confiftence of honey, it is poured into gourds or calabafhes 
for fale. The fo 
The aloe focotorina or 
otonne aloes may be prepared as above." 1 " 
focotorine aloes is fo named, from heimr 
formerly s brought from the Iiland Socotria or Zocotria at the mouth of 
the Red fea: it comes wrapt in fkins and is of a bright furface, and in 
me degree pellucid ; in the lump of a yellowifh red colour with a 
purpliili caff ; when reduced into powder of a golden colour. 
is 
hard and friable in the winter, fomewhat pliable in the fummer, and 
foftens between the fingers. Its bitter tafte is accompanied with an 
aromatic flavour, bu: not fufficient to prevent its being difagreeable : 
Millington, 1. c 
' V. 
Dr. Wright's account of the Medicinal plants growing in Jamaica^ in Lend, 
Med. Jour. Vol. 8. p. 219. 
s 
It is now faid to be imported from the Cape by the Dutch Eaft. India Company. 
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