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complaints ; but if this medicine caa be administered with success 
in these disorders, it must be in the absence of fever, and when the 
excretion from the lungs is unattended with inflammatory diathesis. 
In large doses it is apt to excite inflammation of the kidneys, hence 
it should be avoided where ulceration of those organs is suspected. 
It is said to give the urine an intensely bitter taste, but not the vio- 
let odour, as the common turpentines do. Copaiba was formerly 
supposed to be an efficacious remedy in various other disorders, viz. 
coughs, scorbutic diseases, dysenteries, nephritic complaints, and 
dropsy. We are told by Mutis, that a woman, who had been many 
years atFected with dropsy, was cured in forty days, by taking this 
balsam ; the dose of which she increased to a spoonful night and 
morning.* This medicine may be most conveniently taken in the 
form of an emulsion, into which it may be brought by triturating it 
with almonds, thick mucilage of gum arable, or yolk of an egg, and 
then gradually adding a proper quantity of soft or distilled water ; or 
it may be conveniently taken on sugar. The dose is from ten to 
sixty drops, twice or thrice a day. 
Off. The Balsam or Liquid Resin. 
BUBON GALBANUM. 
Lavage- leaved Bubon.\ 
Class Pentandria. — Otder DiGYNlA. 
Nat. Old. Umbellate. 
Gen. Char. Fruit ovate, striated, villose. 
Spec. Char. Leaflets rhombic, serrated, smooth. Umbels 
few. Upper part of the Stem covered with a glaucous 
exudation. 
* Nouvelleg de la Repnblique des Lettres et des Arts, 1786, n. 33, p. S74. 
•f" Fig. a, a flower, magnified. 
