a concrete juice brought from Perlia 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 resinous matter. It is principally celebrated for conglutinating wounds and ulcers (whence its name *σαρκοκόλλα* = flesh-glue); a quality which neither this nor any other drug has any just title to.