 | Medical - 1856
...The musk-pods which reach the market through the hands of the native hunters are generally inclosed in a portion of the skin of the animal, with the hair...is scarcely possible to detect the imposture at the time. I have often seen pods offered for sale, which were merely a piece of muskdeer skin filled with... | |
 | Medical - 1856
...both in appearance and smell, if the pod is at once cut from the skin, and allowed to dry of itselC, The musk received from the Puharries is greatly adulterated,...is scarcely possible to detect the imposture at the time. I have often seen pods offered for sale, which were merely a piece of muskdeer skin filled with... | |
 | Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - 1856
...quality of the musk, as it gets either completely baked or fried. It is best both in appear» anee and smell, if the pod is at once cut from the skin,...allowed to dry of itself. The musk received from the Fuharries is greatly adulterated, and pods are often mode altogether counterfeit ; and as they are... | |
 | George William Septimus Piesse - 1862
...months ; the flesh had been completely eaten away by maggots, but the musk-pod was entire. The musk-pods which reach the market through the hands of the native...is scarcely possible to detect the imposture at the time. I have often seen pods offered for sale which were merely a piece of musk-deer skin rilled with... | |
 | Medical - 1866
...months; the flesh had been completely eaten away by maggots, but the musk-pod was entire. The musk-pods which reach the market through the hands of the native...is scarcely possible to detect the imposture at the time. I have often seen pods offered for sale which were merely a piece of musk-deer skin filled with... | |
 | George William Septimus Piesse - 1867 - 389 pages
...new to me, I called it the Musk Grub.—S. P. must deteriorate the quality of the musk, as it gots either completely baked or fried. It is best, both...is scarcely possible to detect the imposture at the time. I have often seen pods offered for sale which were merely a piece of musk-deer skin filled with... | |
 | Medical - 1856
...with its fks'.iy side on a flat stone, previously heated in the fire, and thus dried without singing the hair. The skin shrinks up from the heat into a...is scarcely possible to detect the imposture at the time. I have often seen pods offered for sale, which were merely a piece of musk-deer skin filled with... | |
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... the hair. The skin shrinks up from the heat into a small compass, and is then tied or stitched round the pod, and hung up in a dry place until quite hard. This is the general method of preparing them, but some put the pod into hot oil instead of laying... 