VERTEBRATA. 



Vertebrated Animals. 



No. 8. 

 PHYSETEK, MACROCEPHALUS. 



SPERMACETI WHALE, OR GREAT-HEADED 

 CACHALOT. 



Cetaceum. 



The animal substance. A medicinal agent. 



Spermaceti. 



Geog-. Position. Southern seas. 

 Quality. Inodorous, insipid. 

 Power. Emollient, demulcent. 



Use. Diarrhoea, dysentery, catarrh, and in the preparation 

 of cerates and ointments. 



SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. 



Natural Classification. 

 5. DIVISION Vertebrata. CLASS Mammalia. 



Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 450. Syst. Nat. Gmelin, I. 227. Pereira, Mat. 

 Med. II. 809. Thomson, Mat. Med. 70, 1174. Lond. Disp. 490. U. S. Disp. 

 209. Wyatt, Nat. Hist. 55. EC. Disp. U. S. 117. 



GENUS PHYSETER. 



Spermaceti, Cetine (Fr.), Wallrath (Ger.), Spermaceti (It.), Espermaceti (Sp.), 

 Walschot (Dutch). 



THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 



Body pisciform, terminated by a caudal appendage, cartilagi- 

 nous and horizontal. 



Fins, two anterior extremities formed similar to, having the 

 bones which form them flattened and very soft. 



Head joined to the body by a very short, thick neck. 



Mammce two, pectoral or abdominal. 



Ears with very small external openings. 



Brains large. 



Pelvis and bones of the posterior extremities represented by 

 two rudimentary bones lost in the flesh. 



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