57° 
agreeable fmell, and a bitteriih fomewhat pungent tafte : 
it flicks to the teeth, becomes white, and renders the faliva mill 
m en e wing 
KJ. 
Laid on a red-hot iron, it readily catches flame, and burns with a 
itrong diffufive and not unpleafant fmell. On trituration with water 
the greater!: part of it diflblves into a milky liquor, which on ftandine 
depofits a portion of 
refinous matte 1 * 
A a 
parts 
are 
nearly 
The gummy and refinous 
m 
equ 
al proportions ; and though rectified 
i 
pint 
diffolves lefs of the Olibanum than water, it extracts nearly all its 
active matter. It is brought from Turkey, and from the Eaft Indies; 
but that which comes from India is lefs efteemed. 
In ancient times Olib 
and was chiefly ufed in 
an 
ems 
to h 
'the 
been 
m 
reat 
b 
repute^ 
head and breaft, coughs, 
hsemoptyfis, and in various fluxes both uterine and inteft 
alfo much employed externally. R 
found it of 
em 
was 
cacy 
pleurifies, which were faid to be epidemic ; and Geoffroy likewife 
in thefe difeafes, efpecially after venefect 
experienced its 
at prefent, how # ^ , __ 
is now fuperfeded by myrrh, and other articles of the refinous kind 
> 
ourfe is feldom had to this medicine, which 
Lewis, M. M. p. 46 
It is the Xtfixvos of Theophraftus &f Diofcoride 
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PINUS SYLVRSTRIS. 
SCOTCH FIR 
Pix liquida. 
Pharm. Lond. £sf Edinb. 
- 
S TNO NT MA. Pinus fylveftris. Bauh. Pin. p. 491. Gerard. 
3S 6 
Raii Hift. p 
laucis, 
Emac. 
brevioribus 
fylveftris foliis brevibus glaucis, 
Hamel. Arb 
399 
parvis mucronatis 
Pinus rubra foliis geminis 
Mill. DicJ. Pinus 
conis parvis albicantibus 
Du 
25. /. 30. Raii Synop. p. 442* Hudfon. Flor 
Ang. ed. 1. 
Arr. p. 1 09 
Ligbtfc 
Eh 
Scot. p. 587. Withering. Bot 
Ic. Miller Ilhjl. The Scotch Fir Tree. Hunters EveL 
Clafs 
