GALBANUM.
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Lond. ; Dubl. ; Edinb. ; Amer. ; Amst. ;Ant. ; Austr. ; Batav. ; Bavar. ;Bklg. ; Bruns.; Dan.; Mil. Copen. ;Hisp. ; Gall. ; Ferr. ; Form. Hop. Fr.;Fenn. ; Fuld. ; Genev. ; Hamb. ;Hans. ; Hass. ; Lipp. ; Olden.; Lu-sit. ; Pol.; Cast. Borus. ; Borus. ;Ross.; Sax. ; Suec. ; Wirtem.; Her-BiP. ; Wurceb. ; Bergius; Brugna-telli ; Coxe ; Guibourt ; Murrayand Gmelin ; Paris ; Piderit ; Saun-ders ; Spielmann ; Zarda.
A gum resin in clear brown, semitrans-parent pieces of the size of a filbert, show-ing many white grains in their fracture ;this kind is called Galbanum in tears, Gal-hanum in lacrymis seu in granis ; or, ineakes of a more or less deep-brown colour,containing also white grains ; this is calledGalbanum in massis. Galbanum is friablewhen cold, and tenacious when warm ; itsconsistence somewhat resembles that ofwax. Its odour is strong and disagreeable ;and its taste distinct, warm, and bitterish.
It has been successively analysed by Neu-mann, Fiddichow, Meissner and Pel-letier. According to the latter chemist itcontains in one hundred parts, 66.86 ofresin, 19.28 of gum, 6.34 of oil, 7.52 ofwood and impurities, and traces of a cal-careous malate. According to Meissner,in five hundred parts, it contains 329 ofresin, 113 of gum, 9 of tragacanthine, 1 ofextractive, with malic acid, 17 of oil, 10 ofwater, and 14 of impurities.
It is the inspissated milky juice whichflows from transverse incisions made in thestem of the Bubon Galbanum, Linn. ; aplant of Africa. (Pentandria Digynia,Linn. ; Umbellifera?, Juss.; Fig. Flore Me-dic. IV. 175.)
Galbanum may be purified either by re-ducing it, in cold weather, to powder, andsifting it, (Hann. ; Olden. ; Lusit. ;Borus.; Sax.; and Swediaur) ; or, bydissolving it in vinegar (Bruns.; Hisp.),white wine or water (Hisp.), and evapora-ting the solution ; or, by softening it in al-cohol, straining it through a linen cloth,and drying it slowly. (Gall.)
Galbanum is stimulant, but this propertyhas not prevented it from being classedamong the anti-spasmodics, probably on ac-count of its disagreeable odour. Its stimu-lant action, as Murray has remarked, ismore energetic than that of gum ammo-niacum.
suppurative cataplasm.
Cataplasma maturans. (Bories ; Spiel-mann)
R. -Dried Figs,Honey,
eight ounces,two ounces.
Galbanum, triturated with Yolk
°f ^gg, one ounce.
Water, a sufficient quantity
to make a cataplasm. (Bories)
R. Linseed Meal, four ounces.
Galbanum, triturated with Yolk ofEgg, one ounce.
Pulp of roasted Onion, two drams.
Yeast, two ounces.
Ointment of Resin, one ounce.
Oil of Lily, a sufficient quantity.
Make a cataplasm. (Spielmann)
compound pills of galbanum.
Pilula? Galbani composita? seu gummosa? seude Gummatibus seu Hysterica seu gum-mosa? laxativa?. (Lond.; Amst.; Bruns.;Lusit.; Sard.; Brugnatelli ; Saun-ders)
R. Galbanum, one ounce.
Myrrh, 7 of each, one ounce
Sagapenum, 3 and a half.Assafcetida, half an ounce.
Syrup, a sufficient quantity.
Make a pilular mass. (Lond.)R. Galbanum, \ of each,
Gum Ammoniac, one dram.
Simple Syrup, a sufficient quantity.Make thirty pills. (Saunders)R. Galbanum,
Gum Ammoniac, I of each,
Sagapenum, an equal part.
Myrrh, J
Oil of Amber, a sufficient quantityto make a mass. (Sard.)R. Galbanum,
Opoponax, I of each,
Myrrh, one ounce.
Sagapenum, J
Assafcetida, half an ounce.
Syrup of Saffron, a sufficient quantityto make a mass. (Brugnatelli)
R. Mass of Pills of Mastic,
one ounce and a half.
Gum Ammoniac, "I
Galbanum, V
Myrrh, J
Cistor T
Saffron, J of each ' fort y- ei S ut grains.
Sulphate of Potass, "I , ,
Alhandal Trochiscs, [ . ° "',T, . r . , ' [ sixteen scruples.
Kesm of Jalap, J *
Oil of Juniper, half a dram.
Make a pilular mass. (Bruns.)
of each,eight scruples.
essential oil of galbanum. (Hann. ;Pol. ; Borus. ; Sax, ; Wirtem. ; Swe-diaur)
R. Galbanum, one part.