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of calcareous Zoophytes, which shows how extensively this 

 class of animals is capable of contributing to the articles of 

 the Materia Medica. 



Other Zoophytes, containing Iodine, have been employed 

 with great success in the cure of bronchocele, and in the 

 removal of chronic glandular tumors, particularly in Sa- 

 voy, Switzerland, and other mountainous districts of the 

 Continent, and are recommended in all the British phar- 

 macopoeias. Flustrce are used in Iceland for the removal 

 of scorbutic affections. 



The horns of the Deer, when filed down and boiled in 

 water, afford a transparent, colourless, and inodorous jelly, 

 which is advantageously employed internally, as a demul- 

 cent, in dysentery and diarrhoea, and as a light nutritive 

 article of diet for convalescents. The burnt horns of this 

 animal, from the quantity of phosphate of lime they con- 

 tain, have been used with much success in rickets and 

 mollifies ossium. 



The Phosphate of Soda, used in medicine as a cathartic, 

 is procured by a complicated process from the burnt bones 

 of Quadrupeds. And Phosphoric Acid, which enters ex- 

 tensively into chemical compounds, and from which that 

 remarkably inflammable substance, Phosphorus, is obtain- 

 ed, is procured by a chemical process from animal sub- 

 stances. Empyreumatic animal oil, an antispasmodic, is 

 obtained, by distillation, from the bones and horns of 

 animals. 



The basis of Sal Ammoniac, or Muriate of Ammonia, 

 which is used internally as a diuretic and diaphoretic, and 

 externally as a discutient to indolent tumors, is procured 

 by distillation from the urine and bones of animals. From 

 the quantity of ammonia disengaged during the combus- 

 tion of animal substances, the ammoniacal odour is fre- 

 quently adopted as a test of the animal nature of doubtful 

 organized bodies. 



Isinglass (which consists of the dried coats of the swim- 

 ming bag of the sturgeon, and several other cartilaginous 



