VERTEBRATA. 

 Vertebrated Animals. 



No. 13. 



OVIS ARIES. 



THE SHEEP. 



Sevum. 



The animal substance. A medicinal agent. 



Suet. 



Geog. Position. Domesticated everywhere. 

 Quality. White, inodorous. 

 Power. Demulcent, emollient. 



Use. Diarrhoea, dysentery, to give consistence to oint- 

 ments and plasters. 



SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. 



Natural Classification. 

 5. DIVISION Vertebrata. CLASS Mammalia. 



Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 448. Syst. Nat. Gmelin, I. 197. Jones, An. 

 King. 647. Pereira, Mat. Med. II. 819. Lond. Disp. 467. U. 8. Disp. 681. 

 Wyatt, Nat. Hist. 54. EC. Disp. U. S. 376. 



GENUS OVIS. 



Graisse de Mouton (Fr.), Hammeltalg (Ger.), Grasse duro (It.), Grassa (Sp.) 

 Aatoo Kalupoo (Tarn.), Lemak (Malay), Elloomustail (Cyng.), Addjavuppa 

 (Sans.)- 



THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 



Incisors none in the upper jaw, in the lower usually eight. 

 A vacant space between the incisors and molars, but in 

 which in some genera are found one or two canines. 

 Molars twelve in each jaw, the crown marked with two 

 double crescents of enamel, of which the convexity is uni- 

 versally outwards in the lower jaw, and inwards in the 

 upper. 



Clavicles none. Extremities disposed for walking. Two 

 toes furnished with hoofs, metacarpal and metatarsal bones 

 united. 



Stomachs four, the first arid largest is called the paunch, the 



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