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GALBANUM (Heb. Helbenh; Gr. xaXfiavrl)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 397 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GALBANUM (Heb. Helbenh; Gr. xaXfiavrl) , a gum-resin, the product of Ferula galbanitlua, indigenous to Persia, and perhapsalso of other umbelliferous plants. It occurs usually in hard or soft, irregular, more or less translucent and shining lumps, or occasionally in
separate
  tears, of a light-brown, yellowish or greenish-yellow colour, and has a disagreeable,
bitter
 
taste
 , a
peculiar
 , somewhat musky odour, and a specific gravity of 1.212. It contains about 8% of terpene; about 65% of a resin which contains
sulphur
 ; about 2o% of gum; and a very small quantity of the colourless crystalline substance umbelliferone, C9H6O3. Galbanum is one of the oldest of drugs. In Exodus XXX. 34 it is mentioned as a sweet spice, to be used in the making of a perfume for the tabernacle. Hippocrates employed it in
medicine
 , and Pliny (Nat. Hist. xxiv. 13) ascribes to it extra-
ordinary
  curative
powers
 , concluding his account of it with the assertion that " the very
touch
  of it mixed with oil of spondylium is sufficient to kill a serpent." The drug is occasionally given in
modern
 
medicine
 , in doses of from five to fifteen grains. It has the actions common to substances containing a resin and a volatile oil. Its use in medicine is, however, obsolescent.


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