Medical zoology and mineralogy. Or, Illustrations and descriptions of the animals and minerals employed in medicine, and of the preparations derived from them; including also an account of animal and mineral poisons, with figures coloured from nature / [John Stephenson].

  • Stephenson, John, 1790-1864
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medical zoology and mineralogy. Or, Illustrations and descriptions of the animals and minerals employed in medicine, and of the preparations derived from them; including also an account of animal and mineral poisons, with figures coloured from nature / [John Stephenson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pressed and bent back ; head long, terminated by a muzzle ; eyes large ; pupils elongated transversely ; a lachrymal sinus in most; tongue soft; body slender ; four inguinal mam nice ; horns solid, deciduous, pal- mated, branched, or simple, in the males ; females, with one exception, without horns. Spec. Char. Rufous brown; a*pale disk on the but- tocks ; horns with three anterior antlers, round, and recurved. EAa^Oj; Arist. Hist. Animal, ii. c. 7. 18. Cervus; Plinii, lib viii. c. 32. Gesner, Quadr. 326. Cervus nobilis, (Hiiscb) ; Klein, Quadr. 23. Red Deer; Rail Sntj. Quadr. 84 ; Johnston, Quadr. 82. t. 32, 35. Cervus Elaphus ; Syst. Nat. Gmelin, 175. Buffon, Hist. Nat. vi. 63. t. 19. Stag- or Red Deer; Pen- nant, Quadr. i. 114, Br. Zool. i. 34. Shaw, Zool. ii. 276. t. 177. Le cerf; fein. biche ; Fr.; Cervo ; fern, cerva, It.; El ciervo ; fem. la cierva, Sp.; Der Hirsch, fem. die Hirschkuh, Ger.; Oten, fem. Lan. Rus.; Bugu, Tart. The Stag varies, both in size and colour, in different countries; but its mean height is about three feet six inches at the shoulder, and its usual colour reddish-brown above, and whitish beneath, whence the name Red-Deer. Iirthe summer, the upper part of the body, flanks, and outside of the thighs, are fulvous-brown, a blackish line running along the back, marked on each side with a row of pale fulvous spots. In winter these parts are of a uniform grey-brown ; at all seasons the tail is pale buff, separated from the brown by a blackish line. The head, the sides of the neck, under parts of the body and legs are grey-brown, and a broad line of brown passes down the face. All these colours become darker with age, especially in the males. Individuals also occur, of a very dark brown or nearly black, particularly in the Hartz Forest, in Germany, where they are distinguished by the name of Brand- hirsh, or burnt stag, from their colour. In Silesia, and in some parts of America, it is generally of very large dimensions ; whereas in China, Corsica, and some other parts of the world, diminutive