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and thirty fix Grains of thicker Oil. The black 
Mafs remaining in the Retort weighed feven Ounces, 
fix Drachms, and fixty fix Grains : Which being 
calcined for twenty four Hours in a Crucible, left 
feven Drachms and fifty four Grains of reddifh 
brown Afhes. From thefe were got one Drachm 
and nine Grains of fixt neutral Salt. The Lofs of 
Parts in Diftiilation was five Ounces, two Drachms, 
and forty two Grains •, in Calcination fix Ounces, 
feven Drachms, and twelve Grains. 
Therefore Sarcocol confifts of a copious Oil, a 
moderate Portion of acid Salt, a large Quantity of 
alkaline Salt, both volatile and fixt, and a conside- 
rable Stock of Earth ; from which arifes a gum- 
mous or Saponaceous, and fomewhat refinous, Com- 
pound. 
Authors are not agreed concerning the Virtues of 
Sarcocol. The ancient Greeks have faid nothing of 
its purgative Virtue, and they only ufed it exter- 
nally. The Arabians afcribe to it a Quality of purg- 
ing thick and glutinous Phlegm. Galen fays it con- 
solidates Wounds, and dries without Corrofion. 
Serapio reckons it among Catharticks. He afferts 
that being outwardly ufed it eats away Flefh in Ul- 
cers, and that inwardly taken it ulcerates the Intef- 
tines, and oceafions Baldnefs •, yet he propofes it to 
be given from gj. to giij. provided it be tempered, 
like Euphorbium, with Oil of Almonds, or Nuts. 
But C. Huffman condemns and entirely difallows the 
internal Ufe of it. 
It is generally commended in Afs or Women’s 
Milk againft Ophthalmies, or Fluxions of the Eyes, 
which it appeafes by Softening the Acrimony of the 
Lymph. It likewife deterges, heals, and cicatrizes 
Wounds *, and is therefore called Sarcocolla or Flejh- 
Gliie. 
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