Medical Zoology, and Mineralogy: Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Animals and Minerals Employed in Medicine, and of the Preparations Derived from Them; Including Also an Account of Animal and Mineral Poisons, with Figures Colouredfrom NatureJ. Wilson, 1832 - 350 pages |
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Page 170 - Those who have had no experience of these animals — of their activity, keen appetite, and love of blood, can have no idea of the kind and extent of annoyance they are to travellers in the interior, of which they may be truly said to be the plague. In rainy weather, it is almost shocking to see the legs of men on a long march thickly beset with them, gorged with blood, and the blood trickling down in streams.
Page 97 - I saw one of them at Cairo, in the house of Julian and Rosa, crawl up the side of a box, in which there were many, and there lie still, as if hiding himself, till one of the people who brought them to us came near him, and though in a very disadvantageous posture, sticking as it were perpendicular to the side of the box, he leaped near the distance of three feet, and fastened between the man's forefinger and thumb, so as to bring the blood.
Page 97 - ... the distance of three feet, and fastened between the man's fore-finger and thumb, so as to bring the blood. The fellow showed no signs either of pain or fear, and we kept him with us full four hours, without his applying any sort of remedy, or his seeming inclined to do so.
Page 197 - According to Ulloa, and his opinion is confirmed by Jussieu, there are two South American species of this insect. It is described as generally attacking the feet and legs; but, according to Capt. Hancock, it will penetrate any exposed part of the body. At first it occasions no farther uneasiness than a slight itching and heat; in process of time, however, a small bladder or membranous sac is formed, containing the nits or ova, which speedily multiply to such a degree as to be attended by the most...
Page 97 - The fellow shewed no signs either of pain or fear ; and we kept him with us fully four hours, without his applying any sort of remedy, or his seeming inclined to do so. To make myself assured that the animal was in its perfect state, I made the man hold him by the neck, so as to force him to open his mouth, and lacerate the thigh of a pelican, a bird 1 had tamed, as big as a swan. The bird died in about thirteen minutes, though it was apparently affected in fifty seconds...
Page 155 - ... divested of every thin membrane which envelopes the sound, and then exposed to stiffen a little in the air. In this state they are formed into rolls about the thickness of a finger, and in length according to the intended size of the staple : a thin membrane is generally selected for the centre of the roll, round which the rest are folded alternately, and about half an-inch of each extremity of the roll is turned inwards.
Page 155 - The sounds which compose the long staple, are larger than the former; but the operator lengthens this sort at pleasure, by interfolding the ends of one or more pieces of the sound with each other. The extremities are fastened with a peg, like the former; but the middle part of the roll is bent more considerably downwards ; and...
Page 102 - I have no doubt of its being one of the most venomous of Southern Africa. There is a peculiarity which renders it more dangerous, and which ought to be known by every person liable to fall in with it. Unlike the generality of snakes, which make a spring, or dart forwards, when irritated, the Puff Adder, it is said, throws itself backwards ; so that those who should be ignorant of this fact would place themselves in the very direction of death, while imagining that by so doing they were escaping the...
Page 151 - Flesh carefully wash'd and clean'd before it is fit to eat. And yet many People die of it, for want, as they say, of thoroughly washing and cleaning it. People that by some long and tedious sickness are grown weary of their lives, or are otherwise under miser1690.
Page 170 - ... this is a very mistaken notion, for they crowd to the attack, and fasten on, quicker than they can be removed. I do not exaggerate when I say that I have occasionally seen at least fifty on a person at a time.