LIQUID STORAX. Ul 



sufficient quantity has been collected. Mr. Maltass states 1857. 

 that it is then packed into strong horse-hair bags and subjected 

 to pressure in a wooden lever press. Upon removal from the 

 press, hot water is thrown over the bags and they are pressed 

 a second time, after which the greater portion of the resin will 

 have been extracted. 



Lieutw Campbell's account is a little different : he says the 

 inner bark is boiled in water over a brisk fire, upon which the 

 resinous part comes to the surface and is skimmed off. The 

 boiled bark is next put into hair sacks and pressed, boiling 

 water being added to assist in the extraction of the resin, or, 

 as it is termed, yagh (i.e. oil). 



Dr. McCraith says that the Storax collectors, who are chiefly 

 a tribe of wandering Turcomans called Yuruks, are armed with 

 a triangular iron scraper with which they scrape off, together 

 with the juice of the tree, a certain quantity of bark, which 

 they collect in leathern pouches suspended to their belts. 

 When a sufficient quantity has been obtained, it is boiled in a 

 large copper and the separated liquid resin is run into barrels. 

 The residual bark is placed in hair- cloth and pressed in a rude 

 press, the extracted resin being added to the general mass. 



The product obtained by the processes here described, is the 

 grey, opaque, semi-fluid resin, well known as Liquid Storax. 



The bark from which the Liquid Storax has been extracted, is Storax Bark, 

 emptied out of the bags and exposed in the sun to dry, after 

 which it is shipped to the Greek and Turkish islands and to 

 many towns in Turkey, where it is much esteemed for the pur- 

 pose of fumigation, although since the disappearance of the 

 plague, its employment has greatly diminished. 



This is the substance known to pharmacologists as Cortex 

 Thymiamatis or Storax Bark, as is proved by abundant speci- 

 mens sent me by Mr. Maltass. 



ADULTERATION. Mr. Maltass says that Liquid Storax is 

 rarely pure, being adulterated by the admixture of sand and 

 ashes. 



COMMERCE. Lieut. Campbell states that the quantity of 



