balneatory (balneatori)

[ All the refinements of the antique balneatory art. L. Hearn , tr. of Gautier's Cleop. Nights, p. 45. 434 from trees or shrubs, whether spontaneous or after incision; balm. A great variety of substances pa under this name; but in chemistry the term is confined vegetable juices, whether they remain liquid or spontaneously become solid, which consist of resing mixed with gums or volatile oils, the resins being produced from the oils by oxidation. A balsam is thus intermediate between a volatile oil and a resin. It is soluble in alcohol and ether, and capable of yielding benzoic acid. The balsams are either liquid or solid: of the former are the balm of Gilead and the balsams of copaiba, Peru, and Tolu (see below); of the latter, benzoin, dragon's blood, and storax. The balsam used in the Roman Catholic Church in the con fection of chrism is, by the rubrics, that of Syria or Mecca; made by the popes for the use of the balsams of Brazil, IMG:content-1598.png:[blocks in formation] Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 351.