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See also:SANDARACH (Fr. sandaraque, See also:Lat. sandaraca, Gr. ravbapbsrl, See also:realgar or red sulphide of See also:arsenic, cf. Pers. sandarus, Skt. sindura, realgar) , in See also:mineralogy See also:realgar or native See also:arsenic disulphide, but generally (a use found in Dioscorides) a resinous See also:body obtained from the small coniferous See also:tree Callitris quadrivalvis, native of the See also:north-See also:west regions of See also:Africa, and especially characteristic of the See also:Atlas mountains . The See also:resin, which is procured as a natural exudation on the stems, and also obtained by making incisions in the bark of the trees, comes into See also:commerce in the See also:form of small See also:round balls or elongated tears, transparent, and having a delicate yellow tinge . It is a little harder than See also:mastic, for which it is sometimes substituted . It is also used as See also:incense, and by the See also:Arabs medicinally as a remedy for See also:diarrhoea . It has no medicinal advantages over many of the resins employed in See also:modern See also:therapeutics . An analogous resin is procured in See also:China from Callitris sinensis, and in S . See also:Australia, under the name of See also:pine See also:gum, from C . Reissii . |
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