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  1. Deer velvet covers the growing bone and cartilage that becomes deer antlers. It's sometimes used as medicine in Western countries. Deer velvet contains multiple substances including the female sex hormones ...
  2. ... horn, if cured when soft and in the velvet; scorch the deer's horn, and take it in Malaga wine or ... the Wine Bitters, take four ounces of t Deer's Horn, taken when the Horn is in the velvet, cured without tainting ; scorch the Horn before the ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex 
    Publication: New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1898
    ... feet apart! Whilst the horns are covered with velvet, which lasts with red-deer for about twelve weeks, they are extremely sensitive ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Poison plants 
    Publication: Atlanta : Georgia Regional Medical Television Network : [for loan or sale by A. W. Calhoun Medical Library, 1976]
    ... sumac, which is fuzzy and looks like a deer, antlers and velvet, and hence the name the poison sumac catch ...
  5. ... female flower, unicorn, alspice, white Solomon- seal, spikenard, & deer's horn in the velvet three, ounces of bitter-sweet, and one ounce ...
  6. ... vascular. When the horn is completely formed, the velvet coat becomes insensible and dry, and is rub- bed offby the deer. (See Deer.) The horns of the (let r ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Outlines of zoology 
    Publication: New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1892
    ... the breeding season the blood supply ceases, the velvet dies off, and an annular ... (Lower Miocene) deer had no antlers, thus resembling young stags of ...
  8. ... Horn (Cornu Cervinm TJstum).— The horns of the deer are said to be in velvet between August and December, and dur- ing this ...
  9. ... Cervina Us turn).— The horns of the ji deer are said to be in velvet between August and December, and dur- ing this ...
  10. ... Horn (Comu Cervina Ustum).— The horns of the deer are said to be in velvet between August and December, and dur- ing this ...
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