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There are two sorts of ladanum in the 

 shops. The best, which is very rare, is in 

 dark-coloured masses, of the consistency of a 

 soft plaster, which becomes still softer on 

 being handled. The other is in long- rolls, 

 coiled up, and much harder than the pre- 

 ceding* and not so dark. The first has com- 

 monly a small, and the last a very large ad- 

 mixture of fine sand, blown upon the juice 

 from the sandy soil where it is found. The 

 best ladanum is brought from Candia and 

 other places in the Archipelago ; where the 

 perfume of this drug is so greatly esteemed, 

 that both the Greek and Turkish ladies carry 

 little balls of it to smell to : the fume of it is 

 said to comfort the brain. Outwardly applied, 

 it strengthens the stomach, and stays vomit- 

 ing ; and it is said to be an excellent balsamic 

 in dysenteries and hoarseness. 



Dale says, it mollifies, digests, maturates, 

 and attenuates ; and that, externally applied, 

 it softens, and is anodyne, and good for the 

 toothache, heartburn, pains of the stomach, 

 and hysteric fits. The chief use of ladanum 

 in modern practice is in fuming, its fragrant 

 smell having made it a constant ingredient 

 in such preparations. Sometimes it is used 

 in troches ; and in the Paris Pharmacopi 

 there is a pectoral troche in which th< 



