. Botany for academies and colleges: consisting of plant development and structure from seaweed to clematis. Botany; 1889. Fig. 237.—West Indian Papaw {Carica Papaya); plant in fruit, with separate (f and $ fls. 408. Pibrine was supposed to be exclusively an animal fabric until its discovery in the "West Indian Papaya (Pig. 237) by the eminent French chemist Vauquelin. It exists in the juices of the Papaya in great abundance, and has the property of making the toughest meats tender. The exhalations produce the same effect when meats are suspended from the tree or wrapped in its leaves. If
. Botany for academies and colleges: consisting of plant development and structure from seaweed to clematis. Botany; 1889. Fig. 237.—West Indian Papaw {Carica Papaya); plant in fruit, with separate (f and $ fls. 408. Pibrine was supposed to be exclusively an animal fabric until its discovery in the "West Indian Papaya (Pig. 237) by the eminent French chemist Vauquelin. It exists in the juices of the Papaya in great abundance, and has the property of making the toughest meats tender. The exhalations produce the same effect when meats are suspended from the tree or wrapped in its leaves. If old animals are fed on the fruit or leaves, their flesh becomes tender when cooked soon after slaughtering; left raw, however, it spoils rapidly. Still more remarkable is theCow- tree of South America (Pig. 238), which yields milk of the same constituents as that of a cow, and of as good quality. It has the taste of sweet cream, and an agreeable, balsamic fragrance. A cheesy .=cum, like cream, rises on it, and in a few days it sours and putrefies like ani- mal millc. The tree grows to the height of 100 feet, with a diameter of 6 feet, its shaft 60 to 70 feet long below the first branches. It forms great for- ests on the mountains near the sea-coast of Venezuela. The trees are milked daily, by incisions made in the. Cow-tree (GdlactoUeit-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ketchum, Annie Chambers, 1824-1904. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company
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