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Materia medica animalium Indica |
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Hooper, D. |
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1910 |
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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal |
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N.S. 6 (10) |
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507-522 |
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Physiology
All Rhino Species
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| The urine from the animal preserved in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, is in great demand to the present day as a tonic for the treatment of enlarged spleen. It was analysed by Col. L.A. Wadell in 1893 (Indian Medical Gazette, May), who found it to be alkaline in reaction to have phosphate in ... |
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Value
All Rhino Species
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| Linschoten devotes a chapter to the value of the various parts of this animal. He says 'Their horns in India are much esteemed and used against all venime, poyson and many other diseases; likewise his teeth, claws, flesh, skin and blood, and his very dung and water and all, whatsever is about hi... |
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| The urine from the animal preserved in the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, is in great demand to the present day as a tonic for the treatment of enlarged spleen. It was analysed by Col. L.A. Wadell in 1893 (Indian Medical Gazette, May), who found it to be alkaline in reaction to have phosphate in ... |
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All Rhino Species
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| The horn had virtues ascribed to it in Europe up to the 19th century. |
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| blood, Burma. The dried blood of the rhino (Rh. sondaicus) is used in Moulmein as an important medicine under the name of Kyan Thwe. The blood is dried in the gut of the bowel and resembles black pudding. The price is one rupee per tical or one rupee in weight. It's valued by Burmans and Chin... |
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| In the Mandalay drugs shops a substance similar to congealed blood is sold as a substitute for the more costly rhino blood. Its origin could not be ascertained. |
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Materia medica animalium Indica
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