a? 
ae _ MEL—MEL 
_. . preferable to sugar in forming clectuaries—and is not soapt 
~ “to crystallize. The best Roney ts that freest from colour, _ 
Xs and contains the la grains when it concretes. For 
medical use, it should also be as free from flavour as pos- 
toe sible. That obtained from young bees is the purest, and 
= is called virgin honey. When se from the wax, by 
capronsions 1. Wt lee pre-and is another sort, still 
inferior, obtained by heating the combs, before they are 
oie put in press. Honey consists principally of sugar, but 
als mucilage, wax, and acid—and is often oh 2 
ated with the essential oil of the flowers, from which the 
bees have gathered it, as in the perfumed honey of the 
Crimea. Asia and America yield poisonous honey. New- 
man exsiccated honey in the water bath; the vapour took 
fire from a candle, and exhaled its odour widely. The 
liquor was also impregnated with it. Dissolved in water, it 
undergoes vinous fermentation—forming mead. Clarified 
s honey (Mel matum. U. 8.& L, D.) has not the 
_ agreeable smell of crude honey; it does not ferment 
readily, nor does it gripe. — 
Orric. Purr. (Called Melita.) Mel Boracis. L. Mel Rosa. 
L: D. be ge LD. » BE. Oxymel Scilla. 
L. D. Mel scillz comp. U. 8. Mel scille acetalum. U. 8- 
Cajuputi Melaleuca. (Rumphius.) 
_  Orricinan. Cajuputi oleum. Lond. Melaleucze 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 450—figure of the plant, 
A small tree, native of Amboyna, and the south part of 
Borneo. It is called Cajuputa in the Malay languages anc 
by the natives Daun Kityil, and Caju-kilan. The oil i 
pared from the leaves, by distillation—it ‘is said to be : 
impid and pellucid when first drawn, and that the green 
colour is derived from copper flasks in which it is kept. 
Quvatitizs. Taste pungent and camphoraceous; very vola 
tile, burns rapi ily without residuum. Soluble eo hal 
and partially in water. Dropped on pure water, it gradu- 
ally spreads itself over the surface, and soon ent 
_ evaporates; this is a test of its purity. ae 
at Prorertizs axp Usis. Diffusible, cage an- 
ocic, and diaphoretic. Given in dropsy, chronic 
uumatism, palsy, hysteria, flatulent colic, and all ner — 
does the same. Mr. A. T. Thomp- 
a rubbing it on the 
