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tablespoonfuls at a time. Dr. Stacey Jones advises Celery-tea, 
hot and strong (with cream and sugar, if desired), to be drunk 
by the teacupful three or four times in the day, so as to abate 
neuralgia, and even sciatica, which it sometimes will do very 
speedily ; likewise sick headaches. For ordinary stewed Celery 
as a vegetable dish, cut five or six sticks of Celery into lengths, 
each about four inches, and stew these in some good brown 
stock until tender; take out the Celery, and reduce the stock 
to half the quantity: thicken with a little butter and flour: 
add pepper and salt: then pour this over the Celery, and serve 
on a square of toast, very hot. For making Celery water, allow 
a large head for each quart of water. Cook this when washed, 
and cut up, until the water is reduced to a pint: then strain, and 
give a wineglassful two or three times in the day. It is best 
taken on an empty stomach. 
CEREALS. 
(See Baruey, Breap, Putse, Rye.) 
SeveERaL of the esculent grains contain delicate particles of soda, 
in the chemical form of a sulphate. This salt when given as a 
drug is not readily assimilated in the body ; but as obtained by 
Nature’s method it is resolved into its integral elements, so 
that the sodium base serves to oxidize sugar in the body, and 
thus to make it available for cell building, and for rendering 
the bile soluble. 
CHAMPAGNE (See Wives.) 
Dry Champagne contains no appreciable sugar, but when exported 
it usually has some melted sugar-candy, mixed with brandy, put 
into it. As the grapes from which it is made are not fully ripe, 
a second fermentation progresses in the bottled wine during the 
first year and a half. Carbonic acid gas is thus largely retained, 
which gives the exhilarating effects of the wine more than from its 
alcohol, this being in only a small percentage. A spurious 
Champagne is much manufactured, sometimes from goose- 
berries or rhubarb, and charged with carbonic acid gas. 
CHEESE. 
WueEN milk is coagulated by rennet, or some other acid, it 
separates into solid curd, and liquid whey (or serum). If the 
