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Assafoetida, Anime, 
Galbanum, Balsam of Tolu, 
Sagapenum. 
Second Group. 
Mixtures feebly retaining the odor of camphor: 
Dragon's-blood, Opopanax, 
Olibanum, Tacamahaca, 
Mastic, Guaiac, 
Benzoin, Ammoniac. 
Third Group. 
Mixtures which exalt the odor of camphor or retain it 
strongly: 
If I am not deceived, this ungrateful task, incomplete as it 
is, should furnish some profitable lessons to the young prac- 
titioner, as well as to the pharmaceutist. The following fact, 
taken at hazard from many which have presented themselves 
to me, will prove, I hope, what I have stated. 
A young physician of Paris, an eleve of a celebrated pro- 
fessor of Materia Medica, and who, it may be stated en 
passant, had published a book upon this part of medicine, 
prescribed a fumigatory powder, composed of incense, 
balsam of Tolu, benzoin, amber, and camphor. The formula 
was exactly executed, each substance being partially pulve- 
rized, but, instead of an homogeneous powder, the mixture 
presented a grumous mass, a sort of magma; and the young 
Doctor came to complain, in terms little measured, on account 
of the formless preparation that had been furnished him. I 
endeavored to convince him that this result was inevitable, 
Gamboge, 
Euphorbium, 
Bdellium, 
Amber, 
Myrrh, 
Resin of jalap, 
Resin of scammony, 
Rosin, 
Colophany, 
Resinoid matter of cinchona. 
Scammony, 
Sandarach, 
