APPENDIX. 



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Cadi of Medina in the 1768 ; it is now ftill deeper in colour, 

 full as much fo as the yellowed honey. It is perfe tly 

 fluid, and has loft very little either of its tafte, fmell, or 

 weight. - The fmell at firft is violent and ftrongiy pungent, 

 giving a fenfation to the brain like to that of volatile falts 

 when rafhly drawn up by an incautious perfon. This lafts 

 in proportion to its frefhnefs, for being neglected, and the 

 bottle uncorked, it quickly lofes this quality, as it proba- 

 bly will at laft by age, whatever care is taken of it. 



In its pure and. frefh. ftate it difTolves eafily in water. 

 If dropr on a woollen cloth, it will wafh. out eafily, and 

 leaves no ftain. It is of an acrid, rough, pungent tafte, 

 is ufed by the Arabs in all complaints or the ftomaeh 

 and bowels, is reckoned a powerful antifeptic, and of ule in 

 preventing any infection of the plague. Thefe qualities it 

 now enjoys,* in all probability, in common with the various 

 balfams we have received from the new world, fuch as the 

 balfam of Tola, of Peru, and the reft; but it is always ufed, 

 and in particular efteemed by the ladies, as a cofmetic : As 

 fuch it has kept up its reputation in the eaft to this very day.' 

 The manner of applying it is this ; you firft go into the te- 

 pid bath till the pores are fumciently opened, you then a- 

 nomr yourfclf with a fmall quantity, ard, as much as the 

 vefTels will abibrb ; never-fading youth and beauty are faid 

 to be the conferences of this. The purchafe is eafy enough. 

 I do not hear that it ever has been thought reftorative after 

 the lof of either. 



The figure I have here given of the balfam may be de- 

 penutd upon, as being carefully drawn, alter an exact ex- 

 amination 



