The Ufeful Family Herbal, 23 
The Batsam or Preru-Tree. 3 
ARBOR BALSAMIFERA PERUVIANA. | 
Tis is a Shrub. of eight Feet high, with 
flender and tough Branches. The Leaves 
are very long and narrow; the Flowers are yellow 
and large, and the Fruit is crooked. The whole 
Plant has a fragrant Smell, efpecially the young 
Shoots and the Buds. | 
The Balfam of Peru is procured from the fra- 
grant Tops of this Shrub, by boiling them in 
Water; the blackifh Liquor rifes like Oil to the 
Top, and, when cold, it is the Balfam of Peru, 
There is a white Balfam of Peru very fragrant and 
fine, but itis fcarce. This is the Produce of 
the fame Tree, -but it ouzes naturally from the 
Cracks in the Bark. 
The black Balfam of Peru is a Cordial as-well 
as a Balfam,; it is excellent in Diforders of the 
Breaft, and in all Obftru@tions of the Vifcera; 
ten Drops at a Time given on Sugar, and con- 
tinued daily, have cured Afthmas and beginning 
_Confumptions. It alfo promotes the Menfes, and 
is excellent in Suppreffions of Urine. Outwardly 
applied, it heals frefh Wounds. ; 
The Barsam or Totu-Trezr. 
ARBOR BALSAMIFERA TOLUTANA. | 
THIS is a kind of Pine-Tree. It does not 
~~ grow to any great Height, but fpreads into: 
@ great Quantity of Branches. The Leaves are 
i ei very flender, and of adeep Green; the ~ 
Bark is of a reddifh White, and the Fruit is a 
_ No Part of the Tree is ufed but the Ba 
only which -comes = it, They wounc 
