a concrete juice, brought from Persia and Arabia, in small whitish-yellow grains, with a few of a reddish and sometimes of a deep red colour mixed with them; the whitest tears are preferred, as being the freshest: its taste is bitter, accompanied with a dull kind of sweetness. This drug dissolves in watery liquors, and appears chiefly to be of the gummy kind, with a small admixture of religious matter. It is principally celebrated for coagulating wounds and ulcers; (whence its name σαρκοκόλλα, flesh-glue), a quality which neither this nor any other drug has any just title to.