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