Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL;
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by wav of restorative. An emulsion may be made
by b \ating them up with barley water, and this will
be of the same service with common emulsions fee
beat of urine.
The Wild Pine Tree. Pinus syhestris.
A TREE native of many parts of Germany,
very much resembling
what is called the manured
pine, or simply the pine before described. It grows
to be a large and tall tree ; the trunk is covered
with a rough brown bark, that of the branches is
paler and smoother. The leaves are very narrow,
and short ; they grow two out of a case or husk, as
in the other, and are of a bluish green colour.
They differ principally in being shorter. The
flowers are yellowish, and like the others very small
and inconsiderable, the cones arc small, brown, and
bard, and sharp at the tops, they contain kernels in
their shells, among the scales as the other ; but
they are smaller.
The kernels have the same virtues as those of the
other pines, but being little, they are not regarded.
The resin which flows from this tree, either naturally,
or when it is cut for that is purpose, what we
call common turpentine. It is a thick substance,
like honey, of a brownish colour, and very strong
and disagreeable smell.
Yl hen this turpentine has been distilled to make
oil of turpentine, the resin which remains, is what
we call common resin ; if they put out the fire-
in time, it is yellow resin ; if they continue \i
longer, it is black resin. Thcv often boil the turpentine
in water without it
distilling
for the common
resin; and when they take it out half boiled
for this purpose ; it is what we call Burgundj
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