VERTEBHATA. 



Vertebrated Animals. 



No. 2. 



GALLUS DOMESTICUS. 



THE DOMESTIC COCK AND HEN. 



The animal substance. Ovum, Egg. A medicinal agent. 



Geog: Position. Domesticated everywhere. 



Quality. Inodorous, nutritive. 



Power. Emollient, demulcent. 



Use. The white to clarify fluids. The yellow to suspend 

 camphor and resins in emulsion. The shell as an ab- 

 sorbent. The oil as an emollient. 



SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. 



Natural Classification. 

 5. DIVISION Vertebrata. CLASS Aves. 



Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 452. EC. Disp. U. S. 289. Pereira, Mat. Med. II. 

 806. Lond. Disp. 489. Syst. Nat. Gmelin, I. 737. Willd. Ornith. 154, t. 26. 

 Thomson, Mat. Med. 70. U. S. Disp. 546. 



GENUS GALLUS. 



(Euf (Fr.) Ei (G.), Uovo (It.), Huevo (Sp.), Eij (Dutch), Aeg CDan.), Agg 

 (Swed.), Ovo (Port), Jaizo (Russ.), Jaie (Poln.), Wegee (Bohem.), Muna (Finl.), 

 Moune (Lapl.), Jemurda (Turk.), Tochem (Pers.), Mennik (Greenl.), Manning 

 (Esquimaux), Mootay (Tarn.), Anda (Sans.), Gubbel (Bornouese). 



THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 



Blood red and warm, respiring by lungs. 



Body covered with feathers, and general conformation organ- 

 ized for flying. 



Bill short, convex, in some genera covered by a cere. Upper 

 mandible bending from its base, or only at the point. Nos- 

 trils internal, covered by a membrane naked or feathered. 



Tarsus long. Three toes before united at their base by a 

 membrane ; hind toe articulated on the tarsus above the 

 junction of the anterior toes. 



Mode of reproduction, from eggs. 



THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS. 



GALLUS. Bill of medium size, strong, base naked. Upper 



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