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

Date:: 1851

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

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$P.4.RL0UR USES. Those elegant picture frames, that elaborate cornice above the window curtains, that neat centre piece on the ceiling, and those massive brackets in each recess, all of \#iich so nearly resemble the most exquisite wood carving, are of nothing more than Grutta Percha. And the difference of tint, from that of burnt w'ood to that of polished marble, is as surprising as the variety of form. In the Deawino- Fig. 34, Stag’s-head Bracket.$

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