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See also:GALBANUM (Heb. Helben¢h; Gr. xaXfiavrl) , a See also:- GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
gum-See also:resin, the product of Ferula galbanitlua, indigenous to See also:Persia, and perhapsalso of other umbelliferous See also:plants. 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
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, yellowish or greenish-yellow See also:colour, and has a disagreeable, See also:bitter See also:taste, a See also:peculiar, somewhat musky odour, and a specific gravity of 1.212. 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. 34 it is mentioned as a sweet spice, to be used in the making of a perfume for the See also:tabernacle. See also:Hippocrates employed it in See also:medicine, and See also:Pliny (Nat. Hist. See also:xxiv. 13) ascribes to it extra-See also:ordinary curative See also:powers, concluding his See also:account of it with the assertion that " the very See also:touch of it mixed with oil of spondylium is sufficient to kill a See also: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.
End of Article: GALBANUM (Heb. Helben¢h; Gr. xaXfiavrl)
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