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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum, and aloe balls, Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes From out her hair: such balsam falls Down seaside mountain pedestals, From treetops, where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island-gain.
Burton followed in December, with her entire fortune a modest £300 in gold, and life promised to be all labdanum. Disliking the houses in Damascus itself, the Burtons took one in the suburb El Salahiyyah; and here for two years they lived among white domes and tapering minarets, palms and apricot trees. Midmost the court, with its orange and lemon trees, fell all day the cool waters of a fountain.
In practical pharmacy he has perhaps had a greater reputation for the introduction of a tincture of opium labdanum or laudanum with which he effected miraculous cures, and the use of which he had probably learned in the East. Through Paracelsus a great stimulus was given to the study of chemistry and pharmacy, and he is the first of the modern iatro-chemists.
Geoffroy relates that the herb, gathered before the flowers have come forth, and boiled in water, imparts an acrid taste, penetrating and subtile like pepper; and that this decoction is an excellent vulnerary and diuretic. CISTUS ladanifetus. GUM CISTUS. The gum labdanum is procured from this shrub, and is its only produce used in medicine.
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