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Lidén Number 135
Respondent: Wilhelm Le Moine (ca. 1735-1790)
Title: Opobalsamum declaratum ...
Date of Defense: 22 December 1764
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-19 (i.e., 18)
Lidén Title: Opobalsamum declaratum.
Soulsby Title: Opobals.
Drake Title: Opobalsamum Declaratum in Dissertat. Medica.
Note: Both copies have page 18 misnumbered as 19; one copy also has page 16 misnumbered as page 19.
Abstract: This is about the shrub Commiphora opobalsamum (L.) Engler (Burseraceae) from whose gum the Balm of Gilead is produced. It was discovered by Pehr Forsskål, a pupil of Linnaeus, near Medina, Felix Arabia (Yemen).