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Balsamum animje, vulgoCanima:dichim,exarbore diftri&us Paraybe pro- 

 venir, qua: Jetaiba dicitur. Ligno eft duro, albo, cortice lento, pun£tulis ex albo flave- 

 fcentibiis. Inramiscontinetfoliadire&eoppofita, figuraparva, fedoblonga, viridia, 

 ad tactum larvia , nervo fecundum longitudinem & venulis tranfverfis , eleganter infe- 

 rius confpicuis,pr:edira. Fracte filiqua: feu malleo contufe continent in fe fubftantiara 

 tarinaceam filamentofam, pallide fubincarnatam, taftu molliffimam, referentem fari- 

 nam filigineam leviter humectatam, qux pultefcere incipit, faporis alioqui farinacei Si 

 fubdulcis. Huic autem fubftantia: ttes autquamorlapides, magnitudine dactylorum, 

 funt involuci, figura ovalis, fedinduobuslateribuscompreffi, duri, glabri, colorisca- 

 ftanei. Pulpacornediturcruda, eftque faporis haud contemnendi, qua animalia & ho- 

 miries in pcregtinatione fa:pe fe fuftentant. 



Ex ip(a arbore Balfamus feu lachryma deftillat, pellucida, & nunc albicans , nunc fla- 

 vens, qus tandem fuccino fit maxime fimilis colore &duritie: Jetaicica Brafilia- 

 nis, Anime Luficanis dicta. Hsc prunis impofita fuaviffimum reddit odotem. Hic 

 Ballamus quia per meatus corticis infcrioris decidere folet , effoua tellure , fub arboris 

 trnnco &: radice extrahicur , fub finem arftatis , menfe Februario. Monardcsex vulne- 

 rata atbore in Nova Hiipania colligi teftacur,haud alicer quam Maftiche aut Thus. Eo 

 utuntur in Cephalea & Hemicrania. Solus fuffirus ad roborandum caput & reliquas 

 parres fcimcit, frigore arTettas. Calidus 8c iiccus efi: in lecundo gradu , ncrvofis parti- 

 bus in primis , vi fua aromatica , & peculiari calore prodeft illitus, aut Empiaftri forma 

 applicatus. Vulncra mire & cico glucinar. 



Folia arboris contufa lumbricos expellcre, fi exhibeantur, afferunt, interior corti- 



