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Take of Storax ^fs. Balfam of Peru §fs. Make 
a Liniment for paralytick Members, or rheu- 
matick Pains. 
A very fweet and fragrant Oil is prepared from 
Storax, by letting it dand to macerate for three 
Days in a fufRcient Quantity of common Water : 
For the Water being drawn off firft by Didillation, 
there rifes afterwards a yellow Oil, which in the 
Quantity of eight or ten Drops is an excellent 
Remedy for internal Ulcers, and particularly thofe 
of the Bread. 
Flowers may be obtained from it as from Ben- 
zoine, and have the fame Virtues, but are little 
ufed. A Tindture is likewife made of it by the 
Means of Spirit of Wine in the fame Manner as 
of Benzoine, and is good for the fame Purpofes. 
Of Gums. 
Artic. I. Of Gum Arabick. 
Gummi Arcibicum , Off. I uxotmocs ocxcZvQys 9 
JDiofc. Kopy.: proprie didlum, et Ko^u Gal. 
Gummi Babylomcum , Gummi Saracenicum , Quorumd. 
Gum Arabick is a Juice concreted into Grumes or 
Lumps as large as a Filberd or Walnut, and larger, 
of a round Figure, but fometimes long and cylin- 
drical like Worms, or like a fmall Worm twided 
up into a Knot. They are tranfparent, of a pale 
yellow Colour, or entirely yellow, or red, on their 
Surface generally wrinkled, brittle, and within 
fhining like Glafs. They grow foft in the Mouth, 
and dick to the Teeth, are void of Tade, and 
give a glutinous Vifcidity to Water in which they 
are diffolved. This Gum is brought from Egypt , 
Arabia , and the Coads of Africa . The bed is 
white 
