10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOLD-BEATER»
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gold-beater in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The gold-beater examines the work from time to time by slipping off the
parchment bands and turning over the edges of the skins, thus showing where
the gold is spreading the least Gold=Beater's Tools and enabling him to
determine where to ...
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British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of ...
The gold beater's skin itself had disappeared, that is to say, it had either been
absorbed, or else become so completely identified with the lymph effused, as no
longer to be distinguishable.* Dr. Belmas having now, as he considered, ...
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THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICAL REVIEW OR QUARTERLY JOURNAL ...
The gold beater's skin itself had disappeared, that is to say, it had either been
absorbed, or else become so completely identified with the lymph effused, as no
longer to be distinguishable.* Dr. Belmas having now, as he considered, ...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Be so kind, Mrs. Griffiths, as to ask my aunt Theresa, to give you either some court
-plaister, or some gold-beater's- skin — I know she has both." Have patience with
me, gentle reader; do not think that age has made me quite a twaddler — that I ...
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The Book of English Trades: And Library of the Useful Arts : ...
v,. ,. THE. GOLD.BEATER: The Golc-Beater. is a workman who by continually
beating gold or silver upon marble with a hammer, in thin skins, reduces these
metals into very thin leaves proper for gilding or silvering copper, iron, steel,
wood, ...
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The Book of trades, or Library of the useful arts..
THE. GOLD-BEATER. GOLD-LEAF is gold beaten with a hammer, into
exceedingly thin leaves. The fineness to which a body of gold may be reduced, is
almost incredible. Mr. Boyle found that upwards of 50 square inches of gold,
weighed but ...
Charles Squire (printer.), Richard Taylor and Co, 1806
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A Narrative of the Case of Miss Margaret McAvoy: With an ...
It happened, however, that they did not come, and I proceeded to fix the gold
beater's skin upon the eyes. The pieces with crape and gold beater's skin were
first applied, after closing the eyelids; and afterwards the black velvet and gold ...
Be so kind, Mrs. Griffiths, as to ask my aunt Theresa, to give you either some court
-plaister, or some gold-beater'sskin—I know she has both.” Have patience with
me, gentle reader; do not think that age has made me quite a twaddler—that I am
...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1837
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Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the ...
Arthur Gill gold-beater and ticket-writer* Arthur Gill was born in a back-to-back
house in Claro Place, Leeds, in 1887, which was still standing when the
autobiography was written in 1969; he was the second of eight children, four of
whom died ...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ...
FRENCH METHOD OF PREPARING GOLD-BEATER'S SKIN. Before describing
this process it is proper to observe, with respect to all articles made of the gut of
animals, as gold-beater's skin, lathe- bands, harp and violin strings, &c, that the ...
Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey, 1827
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOLD-BEATER»
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gold-beater is used in the context of the following news items.
A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Over a …
... of the gas bags out of the tough but supple skin of a cow's appendix (known as “gold-beater's skin” because of its use in making gold leaf). «The Independent, May 14»
The extreme medic: a day-trip to the South Pole
I have Aloe Vera used in the healing of frost bite, Shackleton had gold-beater's skin. This is a parchment-like dressing prepared from sand ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 13»
Interview with Shems Friedlander: “Dust on the Path of Muhammad”
He was seen turning and turning and turning in the market-place to the sound of the gold-beater's hammer. To Rumi, this sound was the ... «American Muslim, Nov 12»
'Cocaine For Snowblindness': What Polar Explorers Packed For First …
He had 'gold-beater's skin', a parchment-like dressing only fractions of a millimetre thick. Prepared from the intestines of ox or sand sharks, ... «NPR, Sep 12»
emergency preparedness
Along with strange items like fish swim bladders and 'gold-beater's skin" were psycho-active drugs believed to be medically useful. "Bridezilla" or tornado? «NPR, Sep 12»
Ephraim W. Bull and the Origin of the Concord Grape
Ephraim, born in Boston in 1806, was a gold-beater by trade — one who beats gold into gold leaf, used by bookbinders and gilders to apply an ... «Patch.com, Jul 11»
Make-Your-Own Condoms
... the condom in 1564 (see “Columbus Discovers the Clitoris”), European men-about-town took to wearing so-called “gold-beater skins” woven ... «The Smart Set, Apr 08»
A STRONG STOMACH FOR ART CONSERVATION
"They use something called gold-beater's skin - the lining of a cow's stomach - very, very thin membrane, very strong. We waxed it and did little ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 08»
