522 A Treatise on 
orders and oppreffes the Head, and fometimes 
caufes Swooning. Etmuller obferves that it (s much 
more acrid and difagreeable when difiblved with 
the Yolk of an Egg, than when taken by itfelf. 
Take of the Conferve of red Rofes gj. Luca* 
tellus’s Balfam gfs. Balfam of Peru gutt. iij. 
Make a Bolus for an old Cough, a recent pul- 
monary Confumption, internal Ulcers, Falls, 
Bruifes, and Dylenteries. 
A r t i c. III. Of the Balsam of Tolu. 
Balfamum Tolutanum , Off. Balfamum folidum , 
quorumd. This is a tough refinous Juice of a mid- 
dle Confiftence between a Liquid and a Solid, but 
growing dry and brittle by Age. It has a yellow- 
ilh brown or fomewhat golden Colour, and a very 
fragrant Smell approaching to the Smell of Ben- 
zoine and Citron, with a pleafant fweet Tafte, not 
in the lead: naufeous like the other Balfam s. It is 
brought in fmall Gourds from a fouthern Province 
of America lying between Carthagena and Nomhre 
de Dios , which the Indians call 7 ohf 9 and the Spani- 
ards Honduras . 
The Tree which produces it is called Balfamum 
Tolutanum , foliis Ceratice fimiiihus , quod candidum efi^ 
C. B. P. 401. Balfamum de Tolu , J. B. 1. 196. 
Balfamum Prcvinci <e Tolu , Balfamifera , quart a. Her- 
Tiand. 53. An Incifion is made in the Bark du- 
ring the hot Seafons, and the Juice iffuing from it 
is received by Spoons formed of a black Kind of 
Wax. Afterwards it is put into Gourds, or other 
Velfels prepared for it. 
This Balfam has the fame Virtues afcribed to it 
as the Balfam of Peru , and by fome is accounted 
preferable. In England the Ufe of it is more general, 
efpeci- 
