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much reprobated. Ewe's milk, lac ovillum, is thick and heavy ; 

 it abounds in cream, and contains but a small proportion of whey, 

 and is scarcely ever used either in the way of diet or medicine. 

 Mutton broth, jus vervecimtm, is often taken, but not very pro- 

 perly, by delicate and weak persons. It is strong, and does not 

 sit very well upon the stomach. Broth made of sheep's trotters, 

 decoct um pedoe vervecinorum, is administered inthe form of enema 

 in abrations and ulcerations of the intestinal canal, and in other 

 cases in which nourishment cannot be given by the mouth." 

 Off. Prep. — Scvum praeparatum, L. 



IV. 

 CASTOR FIBER, 



Common Beaver. 



Order Glires, Lin. Rodentia, Cuv. 



Gen. Char. — Incisors | ; canines I— I ; molars i — 1=20. 

 Molars with flat crowns, and transverse or sinuous 

 and complicated ridges of enamel ; toes five on each 

 foot, the anterior short and close, the posterior longer 

 andpalmated; tail broad, thick, flattened horizontally, 

 of an oval form, naked, and covered with scales. 



Spec. Char. — Far consisting of two sorts of hair, one 

 coarse and brownish, the other downy, more or less 

 grey; tail flat, oval, and naked; length about two feet. 



Kaarup; Arist. Hist. \\b. viii. c. 5. Diosc. ii.2f>. Oppian, i. 398. Tiber ; PI in ii, 

 lib. viii. c.30. Agricola, An. Subs. 482. Belon,Aquat.-2b. Castor; Gesner, 

 Quadr. 309. Castor sivc Fiber ; Raii, Syn. Quadr. 209. Castor Fiber; Syst. 

 Nat. Gmelin, 124. Klein, Quadr. 91. Shaiv Zool. ii. 30. t. 128. Le Castor, 

 ouleBievre; Buffon, Hist. Nat. viii. 282. t. 36. Beaver; Pennant, Quadr. 

 ii- 114. Br. Zool. i. t. 9. 



Bievre ; Castor, Fr.; Bivaro ; Castoro, It.; Bi'.aro ; Castor, Sp.; Der Bieber ; 

 Kustor,Ger.; Bever, Out. ; Bauer, Dm; 



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