Gutta percha, its discovery, history, and manifold uses.

Date:
1851
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gutta percha, its discovery, history, and manifold uses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it satisfactorily, the public may do it for themselves. Happily this difficulty is diminisliing every day, and seems likely before long to disappear. Mr. Horlock’s advice to brethren of his craft is wise : to dismiss prejudice, to make themselves fairly acquainted with the claims of this new substance, and if these should approve themselves, to adopt it in the spirit of intelli¬ gence and enterprise, seeing that after all it belongs more to the province of shoemakers, and might be more to their profit, than to that of any other class. lY. The other domestic applications of Grutta Percha must be more briefly dismissed. There is not a department of the household where its versatile qualities might not render service. In the SCULLEET, it appears in the form of light and durable pails, and bowls that cannot be broken. The bucket of the Pig. 26, Clothes-line*
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