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ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA.
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spiritds vini gallid (see p. 1226). It is also used for preparingIts oil has been applied to cracked nipples. . gg an^
The white or glaire is employed as a clarifying agent forsome other liquids. Its efficacy depends on its coagulation, oj^ ^ tl> e
sp° r
it entangles in its meshes the impurities, with which it either r 13 ® ^surface or precipitates. When the liquid to be clarified does ntaneously coagulate the albumen, it is necessary to apply ^ eatbinders use the glaire as a varnish.
Class 10. Mammalia , Linnmus. — Mammals.
Vertebrated animals with red and warm blood, breathing through lunyS,and suckling their young with milk formed in their breasts or mammte.
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Body pisciform, terminated by a caudal appendage, cartilaginous, an ^
Two anterior extremities formed like fins, having the bones which form t ,ie , )CC tor s .>and very soft. Head joined to the body by a very short thick neck. . '. iH P 1 K e
abdominal mamma. Ears with very small external openings. Brain l a in 10
and bones of the posterior extremities represented by two rudimentary bonesflesh.
Physe'ter macroceph' alus, I,inn. L. E. — Great Headed
(Concretum in propriis cellulis repertum, L .—Cetine nearly pore, E .—CetaceuW,
Cachal ot -
D-)
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opinion that this animal is perhaps the Physeter of Pliny yix. 3, and xxxii. 53, ed. Valp.},—the Orca of some other Latin g oj 1Zoology. Gen. Char .—Inferior teeth eighteen to twenty ^each side of the jaw. Upper jaw broad, elevated, without teet rr ’ 0 w, c °jthese short and concealed in the gum; lower jaw elongated, nal ^responding to a fuiTow of the upper, and armed with thick aI ’ yaf#teeth entering into corresponding cavities in the upper jaw. ^ \worifices united at the upper part of the snout. A dorsal fifi^ ^ tb®species, a simple eminence in others. Cartilaginous const* * fill 1 ’ 0
superior region of the hea ’with oily matter.
Fig. 258.
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Lateral view of the skull of the Physeter macrocephalus .
b. Iutermaxilla.
c. Vomer.
d. Parietal bone.
e . Zygomatic apophysis.
f. Jugal bone.
g. Occipital bone.
fh twenty ,
Sr. Char. —Lower tedh h c , r \twenty-three on each 3 re iiiiil'curved and pointed at the e 11Small conical teeth con c j Cupper gums. Tail narrow 0 p t v.nical. A longitudinal endn ^ l 'back above the anus. Upl^ tethe body blackish or ®a little spotted with wh 1 ’ t0 gi* 1 -whitish. Length forty-»'feet. notw'i-i
The snout of the cachalo * ^ >•standing its prodigious ° 0 p a*formed only by the max 1 ‘ ^-a 11sides, by the intermaxiu 10