in the materia medica, a concrete, gummy, resinous juice, brought from the East Indies in globes or drops, of various colours and magnitudes. The best sort is of a brown reddish or yellow colour, somewhat transparent; of a lightly pungent bitter taste, with an aromatic flavour, though not sufficient to prevent its proving nauseous to the palate; and a strong disagreeable smell. The medical effects of this aromatic bitter are, to warm and strengthen the viscera, and dissolve thick tenacious juices; it frequently occasions a mild diaphoresis, and promotes the fluid secretions in general. Hence it proves serviceable in languid cases; diseases arising from a simple inactivity; those female disorders which proceed from a cold, mucous, sluggish indisposition of the humours; suppressions of the uterine discharges; cachetic disorders, where the lungs and thorax are oppressed by viscid phlegm. Myrrh is likewise supposed in a peculiar manner to reflect putrefaction in all parts of the body; and in this light stands recommended in malignant, putrid, and pestilential fevers, and in the smallpox;