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provided its free use is commenced medicinally within a time- 
limit of twenty-four hours after the first access of an attack; 
otherwise the toxication of the whole system has advanced 
beyond the power of this remedy for scotching the parent virus 
of the invading disease. “For this purpose,” says Dr. J. C. 
Ross, of Manchester, “ five drops of the true oil of Cinnamon 
with a tablespoonful of water, every hour or two, for six or eight 
doses, will promptly and effectually exterminate the enemy.” 
Again, Dr. Ross has found that when treating scarlet fever by 
Cinnamon, he escaped the incidence of complications which so 
frequently occur. He gives a strong decoction of the bark, 
at first every hour, and then every two hours, until the tempera- 
ture falls to normal, whilst making the patient also use the 
decoction as a gargle. Likewise for proving remedial against 
cancer, Cinnamon has gained credit with Dr. Ross, in accordance 
with a reputation revived from former days. He reports success 
from a steady use of the strong decoction, half a pint being taken 
daily. He orders of this decoction (two pints of boiling water 
on a pound of stick Cinnamon, boiled slowly down to twenty-five 
ounces, and poured off without straining) half an ounce, or one 
ounce, with water. , 
Cinnamon is also of undoubted benefit for consumptive 
patients by aborting the bacillary germs, and by preventing 
the infection therewith of fresh lung portions. The cough and 
the expectoration improve, the temperature becomes normal, 
and the weight begins to increase, whilst the number of disease- 
germs found microscopically in the expectorated matters 
gradually diminishes. In this way the disease may be limited 
to small areas, and presently cut off from the general system by 
the fibrous tissue of cicatrization. Similarly the malady known 
as mumps (a specific painful swelling of the glands—‘ parotid ”— 
below the ears, and which is infectious) can be cut short by 
Cinnamon, if it be administered speedily from the commence- 
ment of the attack. It should be given in frequently-repeated 
doses of strong Cinnamon tea, freshly mad 
e, or by sucking 
concentrated Cinnamon lozenges if swallowing is difficult. The 
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mumps” means mumping with a mouth hard.to be 
opened, because of the painfully swollen glands at the sides. 
For many generations Cinnamon as a flavouring spice has 
been used exclusively with sweet dishes, and has been almost 
entirely excluded by the cook from Savoury compositions. 
