GAM 
yeung fhoots when they are broken off fromi the tree. In 
Ceylon the juice is procured by deep incifions in the bark, 
un, 
rellow- 
me 
which i is a more effectual folvent than water, 
gamboge e forms a clear gold-coloured fluid ; and on the ad- 
dition of water the alcoholic folucion becomes turbid like the 
watery infufion. eh 16 ounces of gamboge, water, according 
will take up 13 ounces ; and two ounces ofthe 
refidue are foluble i in alcohél : of a iis quantity aan 
of the refidu 
amounts to aaa of the whole. Both the fixed al- 
alies and ammonia effe& almoft a total folution of gamboge, 
-and produce a cer liquor, of a deep and rich Pacachae 
ee ; the refidue, being pure gum, is eee foluble 
-water. The addition of an acid to t 
lise tere 
throws down. a copious yellow ee which, dried, 
a an earthy fraCture, is combu ftible with. difficulty, 
an es not melt like the pure refin. Aikin’s Chem. 
i 
If this apie be mixed with an equal quantity of falt — 
common wate ew 
hours digeftion 5. ae folution, if kept over ae fire, foon be- 
this extract purges ina fmaller dofe than the ; gum Pag and 
yet w with lefs irritation ; its tafte, r, is extrem ely 
acrimonio us an i 
ae a linen cloth, and put it ao a loaf juft 
the oven ; the loaf muft be cut open for this purpote, and 
nee tied clofe aero and fet in fome place where 
it will remain warm four and twenty hours ; te this the 
gum is to he ta a ~ and ued to powder, and this 
powder tied up a and put into another loaf and fo on 
. the fourth or ith ‘ime ; after which it is to be powdered 
nd kept for ufe. 
lofes its violent operation, both as a purgative and emetic, 
and may be given with great fafety_ ; and the a on of the 
firft loaf, if eaten, proves pur gative. Mem . Par. 
1701. 
n fuchh ic cafe 
in. other yee sf cee with a 
and 
ei lanes of ferous 
humours, it is an ufeful and ca hydragogue ; in hot, ; 
. bilious conftitutions, it is never to be adminiftered. In all 
omit as well as purge. 
cafes it is apt, on firft haat i, to vo 
‘The dofe is - rains to twelve. 
whi 
erect its i ftablithments in this on. 
By this cafy ae oleae this medicine | 
GAM 
powders together; then, having added the foap, beat the 
whole lea Soe until they are thoroughly incorporated. The 
a is from five marl to afcruple. Pharmac. Lond.. 
8 olutions of gamboge in alkalized water, and in dulcified. 
aii) fois act only by {tool and urine, and mueh more 
mil an the juice in fubftance. The watery tinéture is 
fill milder ; but the fpirituous tinture operates with ex- 
treme irritation both upwards and downwards. Lewis'e 
e 
ambog e, area in water, forms a beautiful ig Fig- 
, and is much ufed as fuch by painters. Its 
alcohol is one, of the ingredients of the gold Pe pees 
with which moitt et th are e made of brafs 
It is alfo employed by the pela and ain 
maker to ftain white wood in imitation o ewis 
fays, thatit gives a beautiful and durable citron eine ftain 
to marble, whether rubbed in nema on the oy one, Or 
f£ i 
at. 
_ 
Neumann’s Che Lewis, p. 300. n 
OLD, Jony, in Biogi pei a com Englifh di- 
vine, was born at Haverfordweit in Pembrokefhire, and at 
a proper time became a member of Chrift sa Oxford. 
In 1734 he took his degree and was made chap- 
Jain of the college. About the year ae Hes was prefented 
toaliving by Dr. Secker, but Pe acule to this he had 
aéted as interpreter to Peter Boehler, a difciple of count 
Zinzendorf. ‘This perfon held frequent conferences with the 
were 
eee 
was the regular minifter of the congregation “that met in 
Fetter-lane, London. 1768 he retired to his mens 
country, Steel he died, sncaily ¢ refpected, in the 
1771. s a fingular, zealous, but innocent enthiffat 5 
but notwithitanding his avowal o Gtrines incompati- 
ble with thofe in which he had been brought up, he 
reckoned among his friends feveral a the Englifh bifhops 
who had been his contemporaries. at ord. cones ps 
Moravians he himfelf had been Scie a bifhop at 
in 1707 he 
ry of 
Cea land.”? 
‘Teftament, and puted as an ori 
ee pieces ; an nt o 
culars of his life and tous may be found in the Anec- 
ies - Bowyer, by Nichols. 
MBON, in al dr » a river of France, which 
runs into the Seine, near ane 
geile 00 or Render- Abbas, a fea- 
fia, e- of Lariftan, fituated 
on the Pata gulf, ann fo a bioceag to the Perfian 
ie After the death of Nadir-fhah, a Perfian, <i 
