or Quanga. See CAPRA, MAMMALIA Index.

HART'S Horns, the horns of the common male deer.—The scrapings or rasplings of the horn of this animal are medicinal, and used in decoctions, pitans, &c.

Hartshorn jelly is nutritive and strengthening, and is sometimes given in diarrhoeas; but a decoction of burnt hartshorn in water is more frequently used for this purpose, and is called hartshorn drink.

The coal of hartshorn, by being calcined with a long continued and strong fire, is changed into a very white earth, called hartshorn calcined to whiteness. This earth is employed in medicine as an absorbent, and administered in dyfenteries and labour pains, which are supposed to be caused by acrid and ill-digested matters. This earth levigated is the basis of Sydenham's white decoction, which is commonly prescribed in these diseases.

The salt of hartshorn is a great sudorific, and given in fevers with succets; and hartshorn also yields, by distillation, a very penetrative volatile spirit.