On storax / by Daniel Hanbury.

  • Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On storax / by Daniel Hanbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    15/18 page 13
    3. That the accounts of the collection of Liquid Storax given by Petiver and Landerer are in many important particulars grossly erroneous. 4. That Liquid Storax is the produce of Liquidambar orientale Miller, and that it is collected in the south-west of Asia Minor. 5. That the bark of Liquidambar orientale Miller, after Liquid Storaoi'h&a been expressed from it, constitutes the Cortex Thymiamatis of Europe. 6. That there is no evidence of the uda-nafStf of Dioscorides being the bark of Liquidavibar orientale. In a future communication, I propose to offer some account of the manner of preparing the drug now found in the shops as Styrax calamUa.
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