en BURSERACEE. 
‘smoke, showing its freedom from Soaee resin. Mineieat . 
he remarks that a kind of Frankincense is said to be produced _ 
in India which has a reddish tinge (probably an allusion to ~ 
the gum resin of Boswellia serrata). 
 Olibanum is considered by the Mahometans to be hot sdk 
dry, and to have dessicative, astringent and detergent pre is 
Tt is used internally and éxiconally | in much the same way as__ : : 
use the products of the Pines and Firs. In 1868, Olibanam: ee 
fas made official inthe Pharmacopeeia of India, whereitisrecom- | 
mended in chronic pulmonary affections, such as bronchorrheea — 
and chronic laryngitis, employed both internally and in the 
to carbuncles, ulcerations, boils, &e. 
mmmercial Burgundy Pitch may be made by incorporating. 
ited olibanum with water in a steam bath; a sufficientl y 
purpose can be purchased for Rs. 
e made of ite 
= ae 
quality for this 
wt. Allcock’s porous plaisters are said to b 
libanum trade. The icnebee 
Arabia and Africa, who buy 
Bombay is the centre of the 1) 
which deal in gums have agents in 
up and forward it in a mixed condition. It passes through 
e Custom House as Hsesh (a corruption of faarq), and is next — oe 
ted into four or five different qualities. The first, consist= — 
ing of all the large clean tears, 1s destined for the European, 
arket. The intermediate qualities and the last, which is 
y the Indian and China require-_ 
ents. ‘The Kishar Kundur or Kashfa of the Arabs forms 
cribed by Crattenden. (Trans. Bomb. Geograph. Sor. 
, 121.) Carter in the same publication has described 
on of the drug in Southern Arabia. 9 
incision in the tumid bark Sey and th 
as soon as it becomes suff hard. 
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