STYRAX OFFICINALE. ORD. XVII. Bicornes. 998 
« Common Storax, infused in water, imparts to the menstruum 
“a good yellow colour, some share of its smell, and a slight bal- 
“ samic taste. It gives a considerable impregnation to water by ° 
« distillation, and strongly diffuses its fragrance when heated, 
«© though it scarcely yields any essential oil. The spirituous solu- 
- © tion, gently distilled off from the filtered reddish liquor, brings 
““ over with it very little of the fragrance of the Storax; and the 
“© remaining resin is more fragrant than the finest Storax in the 
“tear, which I have met with. The pure resin distilled without 
« addition, yields along with an empyreumatic oil, a portion. of 
“ saline matter, similar to the flowers of Benzoine: I have seme- 
“ times also extracted from it a substance of the same nature O 
* coction in water,” 
Storax, with some of tie ancients, was a familiar oucae as a 
resolvent, and particularly used in catarrhal complaints, coughs, 
asthmas, menstrual obstructions, &c. and from its affinity to the 
balsams it was also prescribed in ulcerations of the lungs, and other 
states of pulmonary consumption. And our pharmacopeeias. for- 
merly directed the pilule e styrace; but this odoriferous drug has 
now no place in any of the officinal compounds; and though a 
medicine which might seem to promise some efficacy in nervous 
debilities, yet by modern practitioners it is almost totally disre- 
garded, Se 
© Lewis Mat. Med. p, 621. 
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