134 II. ANIMALS.—Mammalia. 



dissolved in warm water, and this is added to 201b. of fine wheat 

 flour and 96 yolks of eggs, so as to form a liquid paste. A ladle 

 full of this paste is put into a trough of warm water along with 

 twelve of the skins, where they remain for some time, and are 

 then pulled and stretched. This is repeated twice, and they are 

 then left for five or six days at the most, after which they are 

 dried, — the quicker the better. 



Dipping in pyroligneous acid is an effectual method of preser- 

 vation. When the substance is intended for food, it must not be 

 left in the acid for more than two or three minutes. If rough 

 pyroligneous acid is used, it communicates the taste of smoked 

 meats to the substance ; and for this purpose it is sufficient merely 

 to smear it over the substance with a feather or sponge. 



The solution of corrosive sublimate in water is used to preserve 

 objects of natural history, with a view of preventing their being 

 destroyed by insects, but it renders them as hard as a board. 



Alcohol diluted luith water is more commonly used : this also 

 hardens the finer parts, unless some liquor aramoniae is added to 

 the alcohol. 



The several kinds of flesh, fish, and white of egg^ contain twelve 

 or even thirteen oz. of water in the lb. ; the three or four oz, of 

 solid matter is composed of about one oz. of gelatine, and the 

 remainder is albumen, which is left undissolved when the soHd 

 matter (obtained either by drying with heat, or by oil of vitriol in 

 a vacuum) is boiled in water. 



MAMMALIA. 



Man, Homo ; — Mummy ^ Mumia. Procured from Egypt, 

 made by impregnating the subject with bitumen, or, according to 

 Dr. Granville, with bees' wax ; formerly used in bruises, epilepsy, 

 asthma, phthisis, 5ss to 3j at night in wine. 



Hair, Prepared by baking in a crust of flour and water ; that 

 of different nations judged by their smell, the Scotch and Irish 

 hair having the strongest scent ; hair with a natural curl rare, not 

 above 301b. in a bale of 1401b. ; fine long white hair is 21. or more 

 the oz. — Subcutaneous fat and excrements used. 



Monkey. An unknown species yields Borneo oriental bezoar. 



Neat cattle, Kine, Bos taurus. Flesh of the young animal, 

 vealy caro vifulina, nutritive, easily digested. Flesh of the adult 

 animal, beef, caro bovina, nutritive, strengthening. — Pickled beef 

 The flesh rubbed with salt, and packed with it. — Hung beef. Flesh 

 salted and smoked. — German sausages. The muscular flesh 

 chopped in small pieces, salted, packed in intestines, and smoked. 

 —Pickled tripe. The stomach preserved in brine. — Pickled tongues. 

 Packed in salt. — Dried tongues. Pickled tongues smoked.— 



