Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INTRODUCTION. CLASSIFICATION OF MAMMALS. Naturalists have described more than 2,000 siDecies of Mammals, or animals which suckle their young. They are characterised by warm red blood, and breathe by means of lungs. They have been grouped into different Orders, each divided into Genera, which usually include several individual Species. Amongst them are the cattle of our fields, beasts of burden, and domesticated animals of many kinds. Most of these are familiar to all; but a more perfect knowledge of their nature contributes to the improvement of agricultural stock, affords indications of rational methods of treating the diseases to which they are subject, and makes us acquainted with the sources of supply of many Animal Products largely used for food or in the various arts and manufactures. The following, although it may not satisfy all as a classification of Mammals, is yet sufficiently clear for the purposes of this work, which is intended as a description of the Economic uses of the Animals, and their Commercial products, rather than a treatise on Systematic Zoology. I. QUADRUMANA, or four handed.* Examples—Ape, Baboon, Monkey. There are about 100 species belonging to this order at present known. In some countries the flesh of monkeys is eaten. The skins and skele- tons form articles of commerce, and live animals are purchased for zoological gardens. * The order Bimana—Man—has beeu passed over, the only products of any- commercial value derived from the human race being the hair of females, in which some considerable trade is carried on, and skulls and skeletons for museums. In the Waste Products Collection will be found illustrations of the use of human hair, and in Case 87 is a piece of cloth made with human hair; ladies' muffs have also been made of it.
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