Directions for collecting and preserving animals; addressed ... to professional, scientific, and other individuals, with an invitation for contributions to the Museum.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
Date:
1835
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Credit: Directions for collecting and preserving animals; addressed ... to professional, scientific, and other individuals, with an invitation for contributions to the Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be preserved by immersing it in its own weight of spirit; but if some spirit is thrown into the abdo- men, so much the better. If it is a large animal, as a Dog#, it ought to have the thorax and abdomen filled with spirit; for be- fore the spirit can penetrate through the cutis, the internal parts will become putrid. A trochar and syringe will answer for filling both these cavities. Large fish should be preserved in the same way. In very soft animals the spirit will generally pene- trate sufficiently fast to preserve the whole. Animals preserved for their external figure should be suspended nearly in the attitudes in which they are designed to be kept. Animals which are preserved merely for dissec- tion, may be put into a bottle or cask without sus- pension, and even more than one or two in the same vessel, paying strict attention to the strength and proportion of the spirit. If two are put into a cask at once, they should be kept apart for some time, as they make too large a mass when close together for the spirit to pene- trate. More than one or two may be put into the same * I call them large animals, because much larger can seldom be brought home whole.