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Take of Galbanum fcj. Gum Hedera |iij. Oil of 
Turpentine fbfs. Oil of Bays and Oil of Laven- 
der, a Let them (land together in Digef- 
tion for two or three Days, and then diftil them 
from a Retort. The Liquor which arifes in 
the Diftillation is to be put by for Ufe. 
Artic. V. Of Myrrh. 
The Ancients have mentioned many Kinds of 
Myrrh, which they have not exactly defcribed, or 
diftinguifhed from each other. We likewife find 
at prefent in Chefls of Myrrh many Glebes differing 
in Tafle, Smell, and Confiflence. Sometimes they 
have a Smell of Myrrh, not unpleafant, fometimes 
ftrong and difagreeable ; fometimes they are in- 
tenfely bitter and naufeous, and fometimes they 
have a gentle Bitternefs *, befides that they are often 
mixed with Glebes of Bdellium, and Gum Arabick. 
"W hence it is evident that there mufl be fome Diffe- 
rence between the Tears of Myrrh, according as 
they flow from different Trees, or from different 
Parts of the fame Trees, or are gathered at diffe- 
rent Seafons of the Year, according to the different 
Culture of the Trees, or as they iflue either fponta- 
neoufly, or from Incifions. 
Fuchfius lufpects that the Myrrh of the Shops is 
not the true Myrrh of the Ancients, but that worfer 
Sort, which Diofc'orides calls Caucalis and Ergafine . 
But I am of Opinion that the feveral Sorts of Myrrh 
enumerated by the ancient Writers are at this Time 
brought to us mixed together. 
Brajfavolus and others have regarded our Myrrh 
as the Bdellium of the Ancients : But they are eafily 
diflinguifhed ; becaufe Myrrh is not fo vifcous as 
Bdellium, 
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