. 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 . is insoluble in water, but is readily dissolved withthe aid of heat, by alcohol, ether, and the volatile and fixedoils. It consists chiefly of a peculiar fatty matter, analogousto cholesterin, and denominated by Pelletier and Caventonambrein. This may be obtained by treating ambergris withheated alcohol, filtering the solution, and allowing it to of ambrein are deposited. It di
. 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 . is insoluble in water, but is readily dissolved withthe aid of heat, by alcohol, ether, and the volatile and fixedoils. It consists chiefly of a peculiar fatty matter, analogousto cholesterin, and denominated by Pelletier and Caventonambrein. This may be obtained by treating ambergris withheated alcohol, filtering the solution, and allowing it to of ambrein are deposited. It differs from most otherfatty matters in not forming soaps with the alkalies. Whenpure it has little or no odor. Ambergris is often adulterated, but does not then exhibitits ordinary fusibility and volatility. It was long regardedas a cordial and antispasmodic, somewhat-analogous to musk,and has been recommended in typhoid fevers, and variousnervous diseases. It formerly entered into many officinalpreparations, and is still retained in some of the EuropeanPharmacopoeias. It is, however, feeble as a remedy, and ismuch more used in perfumery than in medicine. The doseis from five grains to a drachm. 8. YERTEBRATA. Vertehrated Animals. No. 9. SUS SCROFA. THE HOG. Adeps, Lard. The animal substance. A medicinal agent. Lard Oil. Geog. Position. Temperate parts of Europe and Asia,northern parts of Africa, America, &c. Quality. Little or no taste or odor. Potuer. Demulcent, emollient. Use. Preferable to fat as a friction; ingredient of oint-ments and cerates. SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. Natural Classification. 5. Division Vertebrata. Class Mammalia. Ballard and GaiTod, Mat. Med. 449. Syst. Nat. Gmelin, I. 217. Jones, If). Pcrcira, Mat. Med. II. Thomson, Mat. Med. 81. Lend. U. S. Disp. 57. Wyatt, Nat. Hist. 49. Ec. Disp. U. S. 29. Swine, Laid. Genus SUS. Axonfje, Gralsse, Saindoux (Ft.), Schweineschmalz (Ger.), Grasso di porco, Lardo(It.), Pinffue, M
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