138 ir. ANIMALS.— Mammalia. 



over with olive oil, and kept as long as convenient, as it improves 

 by age : used for musical instruments ; the finest are still made 

 only at Naples. 



Gelatine brut Jin, From the skulls, blade bones, and shank 

 bones, the ends being cut off, and the bones cut down the middle 

 to remove the fat, steeping them in muriatic acid, as the gelatine 

 brut of ox bones, then in boiling water for a few minutes, wiping 

 them carefully, drying them, shaking them together in a bag to 

 remove the internal pellicle, cutting them across or into dice to 

 disguise them, and finally dipping them in a hot solution of 

 gelatine to varnish them. Used to make soup, keeps better than 

 the cakes of portable soup ; and when less carefully prepared, 

 used also to make carpenters' glue for fine work. The muriatic 

 acid obtained by distilling salt with oil of vitriol in iron cylinders 

 is less fit for this purpose than that of the manufacturers of 

 subcarbonate of soda, as being apt to give it a bad taste. Their 

 milk and subcutaneous fat are also used, and their dung by the 

 dyers. 



Camel, Camelus Bactrianus ; — Dromedary, C. dromedarius. 

 Stomach, camel rennet, used to curdle milk : their milk, cystic 

 calculus, and dung are used. 



Goat, Capra hircus. Flesh of the young animal, kid, nutri- 

 tive ; stomach, East Indian rennet, goat rennet, used to curdle 

 milk : skins tanned, Morocco leather, yields milk : hair from 

 Italy. — C. ibex. The blood is used. — Gazelle, C. gazella ; — C 

 cegragus. 



Antelope geyx. Yield Persian oriental bezoar. 



Musk deer, Mosclms moschiferus. Follicle near the navel, 

 musk in the pod, mosclms in vesica; — Tonquin pods, China pods, 

 M, Tunquinensis. M. Chinensis, thin, round, size of a pigeon"'s egg, 

 covered with short red hair, lined with a thin brown skin, imported 

 in bags of 20 to 100 oz. — TJiibet pods, muse kebardin, m. Thibe- 

 tinus, smaller, of a silvery white colour, imported from Bengal 

 and Russia. — Musk hags, exuvice moschi, Tnose from which the 

 musk has been extracted ; used to scent liquids. 



Rein deer, Cervus tarandus. Tongues preserved by freezing, 

 imported from Norway as a delicacy. 



Buck, Doe, Falloio deer, Cervus dama. Flesh, venison, highly 

 esteemed ; horns, English horns, round, white ; shavings, rasura 

 comu cervi, used to make jelly and burnt hartshorn ; abdominal 

 fat used, also the hair, mohair. 



Stag, Hart, Hind, Med deer, Cervus elaphus. Flesh, venison, 

 less esteemed ; horns, flat, dark hrown, foreign horns, comua, P. 

 L. used by the cutlers for handles of knives, ordered by the 

 college to be used in medicine for the former. 



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