STORAX. 



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respecting 

 Storax. 



identifying the Dioscoridean drug with the product of Liquid- 1357. 

 ambar. 



The conclusions to which this long investigation leads, may Conclusions 

 be thus briefly summed up : 



1. That the original and classical Storax was produced by 

 Styrax officinale, Linn. 



2. That, always scarce and valuable, it has in modern times 

 wholly disappeared from commerce. 



3. That the accounts of the collection of Liquid Storax 

 given by Petiver and Landerer are in many important par- 

 ticulars grossly erroneous. 



4. That Liquid Storax is the produce of Liquidambar orientale, 

 Miller, and that it is collected in the south-west of Asia 

 Minor. 



5. That the bark of Liquidambar orientale, Miller, after Liquid 

 Storax has been expressed from it, constitutes the Cortex thy- 

 miamatis of Europe. 



6. That there is no evidence of the N<zWa$#oi> of Dioscorides 

 being the bark of Liquidambar orientale. 



ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON STOEAX. 



(Storax, nacJitrdgliclie Bemerkungen.} 



WHEN I had the honour of laying before the Pharmaceutical 

 Society some observations on Storax, 1 I hoped to be able to com- 

 municate at no distant interval such additional information as 

 would complete the history of that drug. During the six years 

 that have since elapsed, I have not lost sight of the subject, and 

 although I am still unable to determine all the points I wished 

 to clear up, I am induced, by reasons which I will presently 

 explain, again to bring it before the Society. 



To render my remarks more intelligible, I will briefly recapi- 

 tulate the conclusions which my former paper was intended to 

 establish, and which are the following : 



tl. That the Storax of ancient times was produced by Styrax 

 officinale, L. 

 2. That this substance has disappeared from the commerce of 

 modern days. 

 1 Pharm. Journ. vol. xvi. p. 417. 

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1863. 





