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Take of Sarcocol macerated in Milk 3]’. prepared 
Tutty 3fs. Mucilage of Quince- Seed extracted 
by Role- Water 5iij. Mix and make a Colly- 
rium for Inflammations of the Eyes. 
Take Myrrh, Aloes and Sarcocol, a q. v. Make 
a Powder to confolidate Wounds. 
CHAP. VIII. 
Of Juices ex traced from Plants by Art. 
H AVING fpoke of the liquid and concreted 
Juices, which flow from Plants, either ipon- 
taneoufly, or by Incifion, we are now to treat of 
fome other concreted Juices, which are drawn from 
their relpedlive Plants by Art. Thefe either pre- 
ferve the Confidence of a folid Extract ; or they 
put on the Appearance of Salt. Of the fird Kind 
are Aloes, Scammony, Gamboge, Opium, Acacia, 
Hypocidis, and Japan - Earth \ of the lad, Sugar 
and Tartar. 
Art 1 c. I. Of Aloes. 
Aloe et Succus Aloes , Off. *AXo»j, Diofc. Labe 7 et 
Cebur , Arab. Aloes is an infpiffated Juice, which in 
the Shops is didinguifhed into various Sorts, either 
from the Places whence it is brought, or from the 
Species of the Plants which produce it, or from fome 
Difference in its Subdance. 
The Ancients reckoned but two Sorts, according 
to Diofcorides : The one was pure of a yellowifh red 
Colour, refembling the Liver, and thence named 
hepatick ; the other was impure, coarfe, and gritty, 
being only the Dregs of the finer Sort. 
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