. A materia medica animalia, containing the scientific analysis, natural history, and chemical and medical properties and uses of the substances that are the products of beasts, birds, fishes or insects . ey think, worms eat their green they would find that the earth without worms wouldsoon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation, andconsequently sterile; and besides, in favor of worms it shouldbe hinted, that green corn, plants, and flowers are not somuch injured by them as by many species of Coleoptera (sca-rabs) and Tipiila (long--legs) in their larvce or grub state, andb
. A materia medica animalia, containing the scientific analysis, natural history, and chemical and medical properties and uses of the substances that are the products of beasts, birds, fishes or insects . ey think, worms eat their green they would find that the earth without worms wouldsoon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation, andconsequently sterile; and besides, in favor of worms it shouldbe hinted, that green corn, plants, and flowers are not somuch injured by them as by many species of Coleoptera (sca-rabs) and Tipiila (long--legs) in their larvce or grub state, andby unnoticed myriads of smaU shelless snails called slugs,which silently and imperceptibly make amazing havoc in thefield and garden. Worms work most in the spring, and areout every mild night in the winter. They are very pro-lific. Worms are readily destroyed by the application of ccgri-mon salt, sown broadcast, at the rate of five or six bushelsper acre; or on grass plats, by the application of lime-water,or rather milk of lime, which is readily made by stin-ing forten minutes a pound of hot lime in four or five pailfuls ofwater. But, for the reasons already given, they should notbe destroyed. 12. YERTEBRATA. Vertehrated Animals. No. 24. CROTALUS HORRIDUS. THE RATTLESNAKE. The animal substance. Lachesis. A medicinal agent. Geog. Position. United States, Infectious, Alterative. Use. Sufferings of drunkards, from the abuse of mercury,fainting-fits, erysipelas, hydrophobia, &c. SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. Natural Division Vertebrata. Class Reptilia. , Memoirs, &c., 1796. Owen, Zool. Trans., Vol. I. Annales des , Tom. XXVI., par M. Duvernay, M. D. Jones, An. King. 558. Wyatt,Nat. Hist. 84. British Journal of Homccopathy, Jan. 1853. The Essential Characters. Body extremely elongated, entirely without limbs, movingitself by means of the folds it makes while in contact withthe ground. Vertebral column very movable, composed
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