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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Report upon the collections of mammals made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado,... 
    Publication: [Washington] : [Govt. Print. Office], [1875]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101689664
    ... very different C. macrotis. CARIACUS VIRGINIANUS, var. Dwarf Deer of ... <5, with horns in the velvet.—The animal to be here described is clearly ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Fauna americana : being a description of the mammiferous animals inhabiting North America 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Finley, 1825
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60930050R
    ... horns are cast in January; they lose the velvet the last of September, and ... and courage; when the deer discover one of these reptiles, they leap into ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Health at home, or, Hall's family doctor : showing how to invigorate and preserve health, ... 
    Publication: Hartford, Conn. : Betts, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63580050R
    ... daily drives in her splendid equipage, walking on velvet carpets, and receiving in her saloons the culture ... because if the horn of a hart or deer is reduced to fine shavings and soaked in ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The domestic encyclopaedia, or, A dictionary of facts, and useful knowledge: comprehending a .... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by William Young Birch, and Abraham Small, no. 17, South Second-Street ; Robert Carr, printer, 1803
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2577026RX3
    ... paration might, in many cases, be employed with safety, instead of the Peruvian bark, which is seldom obtained in a genuine state from the shops. The leaves of the sloe - tree, are eaten by horses, sheep, and goats : the bark is relished by hares, deer, and other wild quad- rupeds. Sloe-worm. SccBlind- ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - Encyclopaedia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1830-33
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/00110080RX9
    ... two strong muscles, covered in- side by a velvet-like cartilage : here the food is ground, or ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, ... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed and published by James Maxwell, 1819
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0037263X1
    ... d With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves. Thomson. A'nemoscope, a-n£m'6- ... child. So have I seen trim books in velvet dight, With golden leaves and painted babery Of ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - The London medical dictionary: including, under distinct heads, every branch of medicine, viz.... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Mitchell, Ames, and White ; William Brown, printer, 1819
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2566033RX1
    ... to assist them in hearing : all animals, as deer, hares, &c. whose ears have much motion, always ... RIA NI'GRA, (from cervus, a stag, because deer are fond of it). See Laserpitium vulgatius, et ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Studies of nature (Volume 3) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by Abraham Small, for Birch & Small, M. Carey, C. & A. Conrad & Co., W. W. Woodward, Jacob Johnson, and Kimber and COnrad, in Philadelphia ; Thomas and Andrews, Boston ; Campbell and Mitchell, New-York ; and Backus and Whiting, Albany, 1808
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0220231X3
    ... go in quest of the skins of the deer an i of " the buffaloes which thou mayest ... were attended with scarcely any success. The rein-deer, and the rigon of Peru, refused to live ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - The elements of materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 2) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507075X2
    ... CISSAMTELOS PAREIRA, Linn, E. D.—PAREIRA BRAVA OR VELVET LEAF. Sex. Syst. Dicecia, Monadelphia. (Radix, L— Root, ... above, underneath covered with silky pubescence (hence called velvet leaf), but not truly downy. Flowers small, yellow. ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - The principles of chemistry : illustrated by simple experiments 
    Publication: Cambridge [Mass.] : Bartlett, 1852
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60740620R
    ... the preparation of jellies. The antlers of the deer are likewise rich in gelatine, and on this ... 403. Antimony-glance, prismatoidal, 407. Antlers of the deer, 647. Aqua regia, 188. Arable land, 255, 612. " " ...
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