AMY—AMY 47 
\ OVFICINAL. ee Seige eee Et 
ota & mares Saver Nig sina 
Amygdale Communis Foe: ‘Edin. 
Cabinet specimens, Jeff. Coll. Nos. 52 and 53—coloured 
. figure of the plant, No. 54. 
Native of Syria and Barbary—naturalized in Europe, where 
its fruit does not ripen ; flowers in March and April, before 
 frondescence. These two varieties not distinguished from 
each other, but by the taste of the kernel of the fruit. — 
The Valencia almond sweet, large, flat, pointed at one | 
extremity, and compressed, as if by the thumb, in re 
middle. Italian, poor te less cae a less depressed i in the 
middle. _ Jordan H smscepti > og “4 ae ; best and 
sweetest kind; said to saodacel Nt a erent species; 
are longer, flatter, less pointed at one end, less round at 
_ the other, cuticle paler, than the others. The bitter poi- 
sons fowls, parrots, and some animals ; used to clear mud- 
dy water. All kinds yield a fine oil by expression. 
Quatities. The sweet, inodorous, have a sweet bland taste; 
the bitter, triturated with water, have the odour of peach, 
and a pleasant bitter flavour. 
Proust and Boullay have proved the —- patween. the 
emulsion of sweet almonds and human milk. 
Sweet almonds—oil 54, albumen 24 (on which the indigest- 
ible property depends, ) sugar 6, gum 3, with traces of — 
acetic acid. The bitter contains, in addition to these, hy- 
drocyanic acid, in union with a peculiar volatile oil, on 
which its narcotic effect depends. Yet these last princi- 
= are So modified by their natural combination 
ie eding that they may be eaten with imp A 
been considered as an antidote to drunk 
Water from ee salaterious 
and animal, 
ae 
Mepicat ProrentTies AND ; One : Sodis-saleliaiocy « not 
nutritious ; heartburn is said to be relieved by eating six 
or eight, decorticated. Triturated with water, milky 
emulsions are formed. 3ij almonds saturate about f3vi 
water. Used for suspending in water, substances not mis- 
cible with it, as camphor and gum resins; to assist in pul- 
verizing refractory substances. Mr. A. T. Thompson has 
found the emulsion useful as a lotion, inacné rosacea, and 
in impetigo. The bitter almonds, eaten by some persons, 
produce urticaria—rare. 
Orric. Pree. Confectio Am gdalarum. L. Emulsie Cam-— 
phore. E. fe bi eaciae Mittens 4 
Amygdale Placenta—almond cake—substance left after ex- 
pression of the oil—ground, is almond ite ois as 
soap by ladies and dandies. 
