Note 126 — Chapter XIII · OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS AND OF THEIR CORRUPTIONS

Estoracis calamita, G. de F., p. 93. Lavallée appends the note: "Storax et Styrax calamita." Storax, a resin resembling benzoin, was in high esteem from the time of Pliny to the eighteenth century. It was obtained from the stem of Styrax officinalis, a native of Greece and the Levant. In our MS. four other ingredients mentioned by G. de F. have been left out, but the Shirley MS. gives them: "and oyle of Kamamyle and of Mallyor of aushes and of calamynt," i.e. oil of camomile, melilot (Meliters), rosemary, thymus calamita, a species of balm. Possibly this is a mint called Calaminta nepeta, a plant formerly much used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic. Melilot, a genus of clover-like plants of the natural order of Leguminose.