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Show 84 JUNIPER. Macerate for two days, and, having added as much water as will prevent empyreuma, drawoff, by distillation, nine pounds, E. (onegallon, L. D.) The good and badeffects of this spirit exactly coincide with those ofgin. Gin. It is of consequence to the sick, that apothecaries should possess this medicine in the genuinestate; for gin, or geneva, is the ordinary malt spirit, distilled a secoud time, with the addition of some juniper-berries. Formerly the berries were added to the malt in the grinding; so that the spirit thus obtained was flavoured with the berries from the first, and surpassedall that could be made in any other method: at present they leave out the berries entirely, and give their spirits a flavour bydistilling them with a proportion of oil of turpentine; which, thoughit nearly resembles the flavour of juniper-berries, is heating, and possess not their truly excellent diuretic qualities. As this sophistication is less employed in Holland, we most commonly erder Hollands and water as drink for our dropsical patients. LYCIAN JUNIPER. JUNIPERUS LYCIA. ate Class XXII. Dicecia. Order XII. Monadelphia. Essent. Gen. CHar. Sameas the last. Spec. Coar. Leaves ternate, every where imbricated, obtuse. a DESCRIPTION, A SMALL shrub. Leaves small, variously divided, every where imbricatac a imbDricated with My i close scales. Flowers 7 inconspicuous. Berries large, and, when ripe, of a brown colour. HISTOR Y. itrative of the south of Europe, flowers from Mayto June. The officin al gummy-resinous substance, known bythe name of olibanum, is said to ooze spontaneously from the bark ofthis tree, appearing in drops or tears, of a pale yellowish, and sometimes of a reddish colour. It is principally collected in Arabia, and brought from Mecca to Cairo, from whence it is imported into Europe. It consists of transparent brittle grains of diffe. of |