Catalogue of the collections / Comp. by E.M. Holmes.

  • Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Museum
Date:
1878
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    Polynemidce. b. Finest Bombay long-tongue isinglass. c. Penang leaf. d. Bast Indian rolled leaf isinglass. Note.—Specimens b and c were presented by Mons. Chantre ; specimen d belonged to Dr. Pereira's collection, and is the specimen described under that name in Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 774. For descrip- tion of the fish, see Gunther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., vol. ii., p. 326. Penang long-tongue isinglass is about fifteen inches long, two and a half wide in the middle, tapering slightly above and much more below; it is about j\ of an inch thick. GABIBM. 803. Gadds Morkhua, L. (God.) a. Newfoundland cod-liver oil. b. Ditto, expressed after six hours. c. Ditto, expressed after twelve hours. d. Ditto, boiled. e. Bofoden cod-liver oil. /. English ditto. g. Bight-brown ditto. Note.—For composition, etc., seeP. J. [1], vol. viii.,p. 370; [1], vol. xii., pp. 36, 450. For preparation in Lofoden, P. J. [2], vol. ix., p, 312 ; and for various preparations, P. J. [1], vol. xvii., p. 36 ; [3], vol. iv., p. 581; [3], vol. v., p. 641. For description of fish, see Gunther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 328. 804. Meeluccius vulgaris, Flem. a. Swimming-bladder rolled out into ribbon. (New York Mibbon Isinglass.) Two specimens. Note.—For method of manufacture, see Amer. Journ. Pharm., vol. xxix., p. 513,1857. For description of fish, see Gunther, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 344. For solubility in water, see P. J. [3], vol. iv., p. 471. SILURIDM. 805. Arius species. (Yeta.) a. Penang oyster isinglass. Note.—This isinglass is not described by Pereira. The specimens, which were presented in 1876 by Mons. Chantre, are about two inches long by 3 wide, and i inch in thickness. They present the appearance on one side of having been torn from the vertebra. See Ind. Pharm., p. 467. b. Manilla thin cake isinglass. .Note.—This specimen is the one described in Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 774. In shape and character it is very similar to specimen a, and is evidently obtained from some siluroid fish. The pieces are cor- date in outline, about 3£ inches long by 4 broad, and about i inch thick. 806. Silurus Glanis, L. (Shad.) a. Swimming-bladder, dried and folded. (Somovey Boo Isinglass.)