Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medicine and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all of the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bently and Theophilus Redwood.

  • Jonathan Pereira
Date:
1872
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Credit: Dr. Pereira's Elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medicine and pharmaceutical practitioners and students and comprising all of the medicines of the British Pharmacopœia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physician / edited by Robert Bently and Theophilus Redwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OVIS AMES, Linn. The Sheep. Generic Character.—Horns common to both sexes, sometimes wanting in the female, strong, thick, angular, wrinkled transversely, turned backwards and outwards in a spiral manner. Ears small. Legs slender. No beard. Two mammas. Modern zoologists ascribe our domesticated sheep to 0. Amnion, Linn., the A rgali of Siberia; or to O.Mnsimon, Schraeber, the Moufflon of Sardinia. Habitat.—Domesticated everywhere. [§ Sevum Preparation. Prepared Suet. The internal fat of the abdomen of the sheep, Ovis Aries, Linn., purified by melting and straining.] Preparation and General Characters.—Mutton suet is the fat from the neighbourhood of the kidneys of the animals. It is prepared by melting it over a slow fire, and straining through linen or flannel in order to separate the membranous portions. When thus prepared it is white, smooth, almost scentless, and fusible at 103°. Composition.—Suet is principally composed of stearine and oleine, with a little margarine. Physiological Effects and Uses.—Like other fatty bodies, mutton suet is nutritious, but difficult of digestion. Its local effects are emollient and demulcent. It is sometimes employed as a basis for ointments and plasters, being preferred in certain cases to hog's lard on account of its greater consistence. Pharmaceutical Uses.—It is employed in the preparation of oint- ment of mercury and cantharides plaster. BOS TAURUS, Linn. Zoological Character.—Body about 7 feet long, thick. Limbs strong. Head large; forehead flat, longer than broad ; muzzle square. Eyes large. Ears funnel-shaped. Horns round, lateral, arched, arising from the opposite extremities of an occipital ridge, and directed laterally, with the points turned outwards or forwards. Face flat, or a little concave. Mammae four, disposed in a square form. Tail long. Habitat.—Domesticated cverywhere.