Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . paper and parchment, an application familiarto most schoolboys of the present to powder (pulvis sepi^), it formsa valuable dentifrice and polishing powder. and is used for forming the moulds for small silver castings. The Sepias, which inhabi
Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . paper and parchment, an application familiarto most schoolboys of the present to powder (pulvis sepi^), it formsa valuable dentifrice and polishing powder. and is used for forming the moulds for small silver castings. The Sepias, which inhabit the seas of allquarters of the globe, like the other cephala-poda, are carnivorous. They are able toexercise considerable locomotive powers, bymeans of their tentaculse or arms which sur-round the mouth, and which are usually pro-vided with numerous suckers. Head down-ward, they walk on these arms at the bottomof the ocean. The sepias are also fleet swim-mers; efEecting their progress through the. water either by making the expansion of theirskin perform the same office as fins; or by theforcible projection of water from the cavity oftheir mouths, the reaction accompanyingwhich operation drives them rapidly throughthe water in a different direction. They areprovided sometimes with eight, and some-times with ten tentaculae, and have nakedbodies. The black fluid which the animal iscapable of ejecting from its ink-sac, whenpursued by its enemies, was formerly employedin the manufacture of the pigment calledfrom its source sepia. CUTS. These are incised wounds of greateror less extent, and must be treated accord-ingly. The divided parts should be drawnclose together, and held so with small pieces ofstrapping or adhesive plaster stretched acrossthe wound. If the part is covered with blood,it should be first wiped with a damp the wound is large and it is much ex-posed, a good method is to sew the parts application of a little creasote or a spirit-uous solution of
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