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TACAMAHACA.

Resin,Melt together, and nddPowdered Mastic,Dragon's

Blood,

OlibanumMyrrh,

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of each,half an ounce.

of each,two drams.

Oil of Eggs, a sufficient quantity.

Mix. (Palat.)

It was formerly recommended to be ap-plied to the hernia; of children. The useof styptics in such cases is now propcrlvestimated.

PLASTER AGAINST FRACTURES.

Emplastrum catagmaticum seu ad fracturasseu ai fracturas et luxationes. (Bruns. ;Palat.; Wirtem. ; Spielmann)

R. Yellow Wax, half a pound.

Resin,Turpentine,Melt, and add,

Powdered Root of Great .

Comfrey,-------------------------- Queen

of the Meadows,------------- Armenian Bole,

one pound,two ounces.

of each,twoounces.

Mix. (Wirtem.J

Palat. prescribes three pounds of resin,one pound of wax, half a pound of turpen-tine, five ounces of root of comfrey, threeounces of root of ulmaria, six ounces ofbole, and one ounce of héematitis. — Bruns.— thirty-two ounces of resin, eight of tur-pentine, four of comfrey, and four of ulma-ria. — Spielmann — twenty-four ounces ofresin, six of turpentine, and three each, ofbistort, of comfrey, and of tormentil.

It is astringent and corroborant.

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TACAMAHACA.

StnONIMES : — Tacamahaca, Fr. ; Hackund tack, Takamahak harz, Germ. ; Ta-kamaka, Bohbm. ; Hak og tak, Dan.;Tacamahaca, Span.

Amst. ; Ant.; Bata v. ; Bruns.; Dan.;Hisp. ; Gall. ; Ferr. ; Form. Hop. Fr.;Fuld. ; Hann. ; Hass. ; Olden.; Bo-rus. ; Ross.; Sax.; Wirtem.; Her-bip. ; Bergius ; Brugnatelli ; Gui-bourt; Murray and Gmelin ; Spiel-mann; Zarda.

A resin in irregular masses, appearing tobe formed of agglutinated pieces, of a yel-lowish or greenish colour, semi-transparentinternally, undulated with whitish zones,farinous and of a greyish colour externally,slightly friable, of an aromatic and terebin-thine odour, and of an indistinct taste be-coming acrid after some time.

Besides this kind, called Tacamahacacommunis seu in sortis, there is also ano-ther, Tacamahaca sublimis seu in testa whichis in tears or small grains, of a whitish-greyexternally and reddish or yellowish inier-nally.

This resin flows from incisions made inthe bark of the Fagara octandra, Linn.[Oclandria Monogynia, Linn. ; Terebintha-ceœ, Juss.), a tree of South America, andalso, it is said, of Madagascar [Fig. Jacq.Amer. t. 71. f. 1.—3). It has been erro-neously attributed to the Populus balsami-fera, Linn. ; a tree [Diœcia Octandria,Linn. ; Amentácea, Juss.) of the north of

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the two continents {Fig. Pall. Fl. Ross. I. t.41), which yields an odorous resin calledNorth American Tacamahac [Baume Tocoi,Tacamahaca de l'Amérique septentrionale,Fr.) ; but some authors think this latter isproduced by the Calophyllum inophgllum,Linn. ; a tree (Polyandria Monogynia,Linn. ; Guttiferce, Juss.) of the Eafct In-dies. (Fig. Rheed. Hort. Malab. 4. t. 38)It is stimulant and resolvent.

OIL OF TACAMAHAC.

Oleum Tacamahaca. (Wirtem.)

R.

Tacahamac,White Sand,

one part.

jne part and a half.Distil in a glass retort placed in a sand-bath, separate the oil from the acid liquorwhich passes over with it, and rectify it.

STOMACHIC PLASTER.

Emplastrum stomachicum seu de Tacama-haca seu tacamahacinum seu de CrttstaPanis. (Bruns. ; Fuld. ; Palat. ;Sard.; Sax.; Wirtem.; Augustin;Spielmann)

R. Tacamahac, three ounces.

Caranna, six drama.

Balsam of Peru, "1 of each,

Turpentine, J one ounce and a half.

Melt together over a slow fire. (Sard.)

R. Yellow Wax, eight ounces.

Turpentine, one ounce.