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of the East. The word bezoar is originally “bad-zahr,” or poison-expeller, and was applied 
to this substance as it was supposed to possess extraordinary virtue in destroying the effects 
of poison, whether administered internally, or applied to the bite of serpents, or the wounds 
caused by poisoned weapons. The bezoars are concretions, chiefly of phosphate of lime, which 
many ruminating animals, the 
the Persian wild goat. So 
that they were sold for ten. 
are 
are found in the stomachs of 
most valuable being those of 
highly valued were the last, 
times their weight in gold. 
Those of the Asiatic 
most valuable of all the 
in size, they are powerful in 
remarkable circumstance 
their approximation to the 
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ENTELLUS. 
-Presbytes entellus. 
monkeys 
bezoars, as, 
quality. It 
that these 
considered the 
although small 
is a somewhat 
monkeys, with 
ruminant stomach, should 
produce the same description of substance that was formerly thought to be the special property 
of the ruminating animals. 
A well-known example of this group of monkeys is the IIoonuman, or Entellus. This 
is a considerably larger animal than the Simpai, as the adult Hoonuman measures three or 
