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The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering & preserving objects of natural history and for promoting inquiries after human knowledge in general / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *4 ] «* fars take away the tongue, the roof of the 44 mouth (#), eyes, brains (j), and infide of the « head (z); fill that alfo with the fame com- 44 pofition i and having procured eyes as near 44 the natural ones as pofiible, put them into 44 the fockets by means of a fmall pair of nip* 44 pers introduced at the mouth. The eyes will 44 be beft made by letting fall feme drops of 44 black fealing wax on a card of the fize of 44 the natural ones (a); the card muft be cut 44 fomething larger than the wax, to prevent 44 their falling out of the head. Fill the head 44 quite full with cotton, pouring fome of the 44 fpirits down the throat, with fome of the 44 powder; a fmall piece of brafs wire, that has 44 been heated in the fire to make it pliable, 44 may be put down the throat, being pafled 44 through one of the noftrils, and fattened to 44 the breaft bone, to place the head in any atti- 44 tude you choofe; next fill up the body, where 44 the flefh has been taken away, with cotton 44 and your compofition -9 and having a fine (at) To remove the roof of the mouth is both difficult and unnecefiary. (j) In large birds the brains may be extra&ed by the eyes; the beft inftrument for this purpofe, is a director ufed by furgeons, which may be had of an inftrument maker at a trifling expence. (k) Kuckahn dire&s the neck to be pulled within the Jkin, till the back of the fkull is drawn in fight, out of which a fmall piece is to be cut, and the brains extracted ; the cavity of the Ikull is then to be moiftened with the varnilh, fprinkled with the powder, and filled up with cotton, fcfc. and then the Ikin may be drawn back to its proper place; but this is troublefome and injurious to the fubjeft. {a) Wax is not a proper fubftance for eyes; there are perfons in London, whofe bufinefs it is to make glafs eyes of any fize or color, at a penny or two pence a pair. 44 needle](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30511495_0001_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
