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Canada Balsam

This balsam balsain tree of very common growth in Canada and the State of Maine. When fresh, it has the consistence of thin honey, an agreeable odor, white. It should be perfectly transparent, an acid taste , and a pale yellow color, nearly and soluble in rectified oil of turpentine, with which it forms a beautiful glassy and colorless varnish, which is much used for preparing together for a week, and strain the liquor. a semi-transparent copying-paper. A factia semi-transparent copying-paper. A facti- This prescription is of great use in colds and tious kind is sold, but is wholly deficient of habitual coughs, unaccompanied by feverish some of the properties of the genuine balsam. symptoms. The dose is from 1 to 3 teaspoonfuls occasionally.