Odorographia : a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry : intended to serve growers, manufacturers and consumers . s 25 inches; the length of thehandle is 45 inches, and that of the straps from 36 to 39 illustration on opposite page represents its appearance. In Tourneforts figure the arms which carry the straps are lesscurved than in the modern example, and the straps are longer. These instruments are also known under the name Ergatiri. The best Ladanum is in dark masses of the consistence of soft * Tourneforts Voyage to the Levant, i., pp. 56-60 ;
Odorographia : a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry : intended to serve growers, manufacturers and consumers . s 25 inches; the length of thehandle is 45 inches, and that of the straps from 36 to 39 illustration on opposite page represents its appearance. In Tourneforts figure the arms which carry the straps are lesscurved than in the modern example, and the straps are longer. These instruments are also known under the name Ergatiri. The best Ladanum is in dark masses of the consistence of soft * Tourneforts Voyage to the Levant, i., pp. 56-60 ; London, 1718. t Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarhei de Medicinali Materia, fol. 1516, lib. i,cap. 130. t Pliarm. Journ. [3] xv., p. 301. LADANUM. 307 plaster. An inferior sort is in long rolls, coiled up, much harderthan the preceding, and not so dark. The late Dr. Landerer of Athens, stated, in a communication tothe Pharmaceutical Society (translated by Daniel Hanbury), that Cyperian Ladanum, which is truly Ladanum e harhcl is metwith in two states, namely in sticks {Ladanum Cyprium in hacculis)and in irregular masses (Ladanum Cyprium in massis).. Ladaxisterion. In Crete, the best laudanum is considered to be that which ismoulded or contorted into spiral forms {Ladanum in tortis), butCyprian ladanum is preferred at Constantinople to the best fromCrete. This seems very strange, as the substance collected withthe leathern thongs must be purer in odour than that collected 308 ODOEOGRAPHIA. from the fleeces of sheep and goats, which must be to some extentcontaminated with the offensive rank smell of those animals;the Ladanisterion may also be employed in Cyprus, but the term Ladanum e harhd implies that it is combed from the sum is known to the Greeks as Zadano, and to the Turks as Laden : its correct Persian designation is RahenUh. The gum (Ladanum), is collected entirely in what is known asthe Pyliria district, which is the hilly country stretching fromYallia to Levka on t
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