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Tree. Whether this be the fame with either of thofe 
aforementioned, or of a diftindl Species , I know not. 
The Indians make ufe of Gamboge, diffolved in 
Linfeed-Oil, as a Pigment, and when they are 
troubled with Coftivenefs of the Belly, they drink 
it together with the Oil, but never employ it other- 
wife as a Medicine. The Fruit of the Coddam-pulU , 
which has an acid fweet Tafle, is carried dry out 
of Malabar into other Provinces. The Inhabitants 
ufe it in Food, and highly commend its medicinal 
Virtues. Among other good Qualities which Ex- 
perience has difcovered to belong to it, they find it 
peculiarly efficacious for flopping all Kinds of the 
Fluor Albus , efpecially when the Diforder has been 
contracted by too much Venery. That the Fruit 
fhould thus poffefs an aftringent Virtue, and the 
Juice of the fame Tree be violently cathartick, is 
indeed wonderful. 
In a chymical Analyfis , two Pounds of Gamboge 
yielded two Ounces and two Drachms of Liquor, 
which was fomewhat turbid, fubacid, and auftere, 
and likewife in Tafle and Smell had fome Refem- 
blance of bitter Almonds ; three Ounces, one Drachm, 
and eighteen Grains of reddifh Liquor, which was 
acid, auftere, and pungent upon the Tongue •, two 
Ounces, three Drachms, and fix Grains of brown 
Liquor, both acid and urinous *, four Ounces, two 
Drachms, and fixty Grains of tranfparent, fluid, 
brown Oil ; one Ounce and four Drachms of thicker 
Oil, heavier than Water. The black, rare, and 
fpongious Mafs remaining in the Retort weighed 
nine Ounces and fix Drachms ; which being calcined 
in a Crucible for thirty eight Hours left one Ounce, 
five Drachms, and twenty four Grains of gray 
Afhes j from which were extracted, by Lixiviation, 
twenty four Grains of fixt neutral Salt. The Lofs 
of Parts in Diftillation was fix Ounces, four 
Drachms, and fixty Grains *, and in Calcination eight 
Ounces and forty eight Grains. Gamboge 
