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• 1 2016-03-26T20:08:14-07:00 Balsam 4 plain 2016-03-30T08:52:37-07:00 In the Middle Ages, balsam referred to a specific type of aromatic resin produced in northern Africa and in the Middle East. Although scholars are not certain about the tree from which this substance was produced, we know that balsam was used both as a fragrance and as medicine and to treat wounds.
  
  
  
  
  As Thomas Greenhill remarks (qtd. in Milwright): 

  There is no medicine more generally us'd by the Egyptians than the True Balsam, which they esteem as a kind of Panacea for all Diseases, both external and internal, curing therewith diverse sorts of Wounds, as also the bitings of venomous Creatures. They use it moreover as a Preservative against the Plague, and to drive away Agues or Fevers that proceed from Putrefaction (193)