BALSAM
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 7
An exudation from the Copaifera officinal is, a South American tree; it is a liquid resin, and yields by distillation a considerable quantity of a pungent volatile oil. A small teaspoon fill taken twice a day in a gla of water proves diuretic, and is of use in the cure of gleet and the latter stages of gonorrhoea. A larger dose is aperient, and has been of service in the treatment of haemorrhoids. [s. 296]
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