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use in such cases is now obsolete. It was formerly official in our 

 pharmacopoeias, and entered as a constituent into some plasters, 

 but it is rarely or ever used, even as an external application, at 

 the present day, either in this country or the United States of 

 America. Frictions with an oily solution of labdanum are still, 

 however, highly esteemed in Cyprus as a remedy against catarrhal 

 and rheumatic affections. The same solution was formerly regarded 

 by the Turks as a most efficacious preventive against the plague, 

 and for the same purpose it was the common practice to have 

 pieces of labdanum affixed to their walking sticks, or to wear them 

 as amulets. 



At the present time labdanum is chiefly used by the Turks for 

 fumigation, and to some extent also as a perfume. 



Dioscorides, Mat. Med., lib. i, p. 128 ; Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. xii, 

 cap. 17; Belon, Observations de Plusieurs Singularites en 

 Grece, Asie, &c., lib. i, cap. 7 ; Tournefort, Yoyage du Levant, 

 t. i, p. 29; Lewis, Mat. Med., p. 368; U. S. Disp., by W. and 

 B., p. 1627; Landerer, in Pharm. Journ., vol. x, 1st ser., 

 p. 349, and vol. xi, p. 6. 



DESCRIPTION OP PLATE. 



Drawn from a plant in the garden of the Apothecaries' Company at Chelsea, 

 flowering in June ; the fruit added from Hayne. 



1. Branch with flowers and foliage. 



2. Pistil and insertion of petal and stamens. 



3. Transverse section of ovary. 



4. Fruit. 



5. The same dehiscing. 



6. Section of seed. 



(2, 3, 5 enlarged; 6 much magnified.) 



