larch in other vehicle

Original passage

In treating, first of wines, and then of trees, we have stated that resin is the produce of the trees above-mentioned, and have described the several varieties of it, and the countries in which they are respectively produced. There are two principal kinds of resin, the dry and the liquid. The dry resins are extracted from the pine and the pitch-tree, the liquid from the terebinth, the larch¹, the lentisk, and the cypress; these last producing it in the province of Asia and in Syria. It is an error to suppose that the resin of the pitch-tree is the same as that of the larch; for the pitch-tree yields an unctuous resin, and of the same consistency as frankincense, while that of the larch is thin, like honey in colour, and of a powerful odour. It is but very rarely that medical men make use of liquid resin², and when they do, it is mostly that produced by the larch, which is administered in an egg³ for cough and ulcerations of the viscera. The resin of the pine, too, is far from extensively used, and that of the other kinds is always boiled before use: on the various methods of boiling it, we have enlarged at sufficient length already.

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6): Books XXIV–XXXI, translated by John Bostock; H. T. Riley (1856 edition) · Book 24, chapter 22 · RESINS: TWENTY-TWO REMEDIES. · lines 2158–2175 · passage pliny-nh:b24:c022:001