180 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
of a healthy person, becomes capable under certain conditions 
of developing this dangerous disease. Unfortunately a sudden 
collapse is not uncommon even when things seem to be doing 
well; but as a rule the active symptoms subside as quickly as 
they manifested themselves. Frequently in aged persons, as 
the attack progresses, the lungs become obstructed by exudations 
into the air-cells, and a failure of heart-power ensues. For 
meeting this grave condition the inhalation of oxygen is all- 
important, so as to sustain the strength, and the life; also, 
furthermore, the medicinal administration of Musk is of splendid 
service in such an emergency. Pneumonia may be of a gouty 
character, and require alkaline antidotes. 
Some years ago Blackwood’s Magazine told about a gang of 
thieves, including a soldier and his wife, at Gibraltar, who were 
discovered (to the astonished delight of an epicurean officer) 
roasting a stolen pig over a savoury fire kindled of purloined 
Cinnamon bark. 
For a Cinnamon cake, take one cupful of granulated sugar, 
of butter a piece the size of an egg, one cup of milk, two cups of 
flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and half a teaspoontul 
of bicarbonate of soda; mix in the usual way, but sifting the 
soda, and the cream of tartar, together with the flour; put ina 
shallow pan; sprinkle with sugar and Cinnamon, and bake for 
about fifteen minutes in a moderately hot oven. In the Arcana 
Fairjaxiana Manuscripta (a MS. volume of Apothecaries’ Lore, 
and Housewifery, three centuries old, as used and partly written 
by the Fairfax family,)—it is commended “ for the hiccough ” 
to “drop a single drop of the Oil of Cinnamon on a lump of 
double refin’d sugar ; let it dissolve in the mouth leisurely, then 
swallow it. This is a most pleasant and agreeable stomach- 
medicine, which seldom fails.” 
CLARET. (See Wivzs.) 
CLOVES. 
CULTIVATED at Penang, and elsewhere, the Clove tree (Caryo- 
phyllus), belonging to the Myrtle family of plants, produces 
flower-buds, which whilst yet unexpanded, constitute our Cloves, 
these having been dried, and imported. They contain a fragrant 
volatile oil which has the property of lowering nervous irritability, 
whilst yet acting as a pleasantly stimulating cordial. This oil 
