Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince.

  • Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i860, equal in intensity to that of the other sort. Almost the only difference that could be detected in these two samples (excepting the absence of indigo in one) was, that the residuum of No. 1, when coloured with an acid, was of a finer red than that of No. 2 similarly treated. This doubtless arose from the indigo in the latter partially obscuring the red colour. Various Accompanying these samples, which were from one of the ^Litmus °f mos^ respectable litmus manufacturers at Amsterdam, our cor- respondent sent the price current of another maker, which I inclose for thy inspection. It offers no fewer than twenty- three different qualities of litmus, the cheapest of which is but a ninth part of the value of the most expensive. We were however informed (as we might indeed have easily supposed) that several of the lower qualities of this manufacturer were far from genuine. I remain, very respectfully thine, Daniel Hanbury. [The price current referred to was that of Jan Dekker, of Wormerveer, in Holland.] ON THE RESIN OF THE NORWAY SPRUCE FIR. (Abies excelsa.) In the Materia Medica of the Lcndon Pharmacopoeia two forms of the resin of the Norway Spruce Fir (Abies excelsa) are enumerated: one, Abietis resina, called Common Thus or Frankincense; the other, Fix abietina, or Burgundy pitch. The latter is stated to be the resin in a prepared state (Resina jprcpparata); the preparation essentially consisting in the removal of the impurities by straining. Abietis The first of these substances, viz., Abietis resina, is rare in English commerce, and it was not until during a recent visit to Switzerland that I had an opportunity of obtaining an authentic specimen. In many parts of that country this species of Abies is very abundant, forming extensive and beautiful tracts of forest. The resin exudes spontaneously from fissures in the bark of the tree, and especially from those places where branches have been broken off. When it first issues, it is