Balsam

an aromatic, resinous substance, flowing spontaneously or by incision from certain plants. A great variety of substances pa under this name. But in chemistry the term is confined to such vegetable juices as consist of resins mixed with volatile oils, and yield the volatile oil on distillation, Balta, Jose, a Peruvian statesman, bern in Lima, in 1816; retired from the army with the rank of Colonel in 1855; Minister of War in 1865; one of the leaders in the insurrection which overthrew the unconstitutional President, Prado, in 1868; and was President of Peru, in 1868+1872. He was murdered in a military mutiny in Lima, July 26, 1872.