Home › Miscellaneous Receipts › To Prepare a Skeleton

To Prepare a Skeleton

After cutting off as much flesh and cartilage from the bones as possible, boil them in water till the remainder easily separates. The French still further prepare their skeletons by bleach- by means of acid. The parts not to be acted ing for a short time in a weak solution of chloride of lime. upon must be protected by a so-called etching-ground, which consists of a thin layer of The