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| | Classics - Culbreth - Materia Medica and Pharmacology - A |
 | | Oleoresin (Canada turpentine), viscid, yellowish, transparent, odor agreeable; taste terebinthinate, bitter, acrid, soluble in ether, chloroform, benzene; collected by puncturing vesicles with the sharp-pointed nozzle of the Abalsam-collector's can; contains volatile oil 24 p.c., acid resin 63 p.c., indifferent resin 12 p.c., acids (4) - canadinic, canadolic, a- and b-canadinolic. |
 | | Obtained like Canada balsam, chiefly differing in odor (lemon); taste bitter, not acrid; completely soluble in absolute alcohol. |
 | | Menziesii, Oregon Balsam of Fir, resembles Canada balsam when fresh, but becomes gradually granular and opaque. |
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