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Moor in his “ Travels into the interior parts of Africa,” Ed. 2. p. 
113. by which we learn, that on wounding the bark of the tree, 
the fluid Kino’ immediately issues drop by drop, and by the heai 
of the sun is formed into a hard mass. This, which was for some - 
time considered as a species’ of” sanguis draconis, was afterwards 
fully explained, and its medical character established, by Dr. John 
Fothergill. (Med. Obs. & Ing. vol. 1.) 
Kino has a considerable resemblance. to catechu; | ‘but redder, and 
is more firm, resinous, and astringent. It is now if common use, 
and is the most efficacious vegetable astringent, or styptic, in the 
ener aegis 
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“Myrtha'(g vmmi-resina) Pharm. Lond. if pai" osu 
THOUGH Mr. Brace (Travels to discover, the ace ce. af, the Nite. 
vol. 5..27.) was unable to obtain a botanical specimen, of the.tree 
which produces Myrrh, yet, from his account of it, we have. BR 
doubt in referring it to the. genus mimosa 5 fe or, in.__his, opi opinion: 
it very nearly resembles the acacia vera, which is the mimosa 
nilotica; and this corresponds’ with the description of the tree 
given by Dioscorides.” The’ trees producing “Myrrh ‘grow on the 
eastern coast of Arabia\Felix, and in. that partoof Abyssinia which 
is situated near the Red Sea,. and called’ by Mr. Bruce Troglodyte. 
The same author-says, ‘“‘ Im order to have Myrrhiof the first or more) 
 nerfect\ sort, the. Savages chuse a young »vigorous tree,) whose! : 
.  DEADSREY are without moss or any, parasitesplant, and above thes 
* first;large. branches) give. the tree a deep wound with andaxe.? 
“The Myrrh, which, flows,.the ;first. year, through -this:woundeis., 
“ Myrrh of. the, first; growths. and never is:imanyl great quantity: 
“ This operation is performed some timegaftersthe*rains havea. 
“ ceased, that is, from April,to Jung,,and the Myrrh is produced 
« in July, and August, _The.sap, once,accustomed to issue through, 
ee the gash,. continuesso,to.de spontaneously, at the return)of,every). 
“ season: but the tropical. seitponh ekt yery violent, and conn): 
No, 55.—vot. 4, 
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