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(c?) Dose. 10 grains to 50, in wine or wine 

 and water. 



Cinnamon, Bark, oil, and water, used 

 as a warm and cordial spice to prevent the 

 griping of purgatives, etc. 



Cod-Liver Oil, Prepared from the liver 

 of the codfish. 



(a) Physical properties. An oil of three differ- 

 ent colors : pale yellow, pale brown, and dark 

 brown. The pale brown appears to possess 

 the highest virtues. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Nutritive and act- 

 ing also on the general system. 



(c) Used largely in consumption and chronic 

 bronchitis to diminish the secretion from the 

 lungs, and arrest, to some extent, the waste 

 incident to these diseases ; in nervous affec- 

 tions as a nerve-food, and in some skin dis- 

 eases ; also in other exhausting diseases. 



(e?) Dose. One drachm carried up to 4 in any 

 convenient vehicle, as infusion of cloves. 



Colocynth. The peeled fruit of the bitter 

 cucumber. 



(a) Physical properties. A white, soft, po- 

 rous, medullary substance, investing the seeds 

 with an intensely bitter, acrid, and nauseous 

 taste. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Powerfully ape- 

 rient. 



(c) Used, with warm cordial spices, as an 

 ordinary aperient. (See EXTRACTS.) 



(d) Dose. 5 to 10 grains. 



Conium (Hemlock). The leaves of Conium 

 maculatum, an indigenous plant. 



(a) Physical properties. Has a heavy nar- 

 cotic smell, with a bitter, nauseous, and herba- 

 ceous taste ; color, dull green ; powers soon 

 destroyed by light. Should be gathered just 

 as the plant comes into flower, and dried in the 

 sun, or in a stove. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Sedative, narcotic 

 in some cases alterative, and even tonic. 



(c) Used in scirrhous and cancerous affec- 

 tions externally, and internally for neuralgia 

 and pulmonary complaints ; also in scrofulous 

 complaints of children, especially in ophthal- 

 mia in all cases requiring great caution ; ex- 

 ternally as a poultice, made by scalding the 

 fresh leaves. 



(</) Dose. 2 to 3 or 4. grains. 



Copaiba Balsam. 



() Physical properties. A liquid of a trans- 

 parent yellowish color, and peculiar smell and 

 taste, which is pungent, acrid, and nause- 

 ous ; when fresh, of the consistency of linseed 

 oil, gradually becoming thicker by exposure to 

 the air, till at last it is as solid as resin ; soluble 

 in ether and alcohol. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Stimulant, diuretic, 

 purgative in large doses ; allays irritation of 



the mucous membranes, and especially those 

 of the urinary passages. 



(c) Used in chronic bronchitis, spasmodic 

 asthma, whooping-cough, and in chronic in- 

 flammation of the bladder, etc. 



(rf) Dose. 10 minims to 30 in emulsion, or 

 in the gelatine capsules in which it is sold. 



Creosote. A peculiar liquid prepared from 

 pyroxylic oil. 



(a) Physical properties. An oily, colorless, 

 transparent fluid, with a disagreeable smell, re- 

 sembling somewhat the odor of badly-smoked 

 meat. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Tonic, stomachic, 

 diaphoretic, antiseptic, and styptic. 



(c) Used internally in phthisis ; also in 

 troublesome vomiting, from any cause not 

 readily understood, as seasickness. 



Decoction of Cinchona. 



(a) Boil 10 drachms of bruised yellow 

 cinchona in a pint of water for ten minutes, 

 in a closed vessel, then strain. 



(b) Therapeutical effects. Antiseptic, as- 

 tringent, tonic, febrifuge. 



(c) Used in fever, malignant sore throat, 

 dyspepsia. 



(d\ Dose, li to 3 ounces twice or thrice a 



j 

 day. 



Decoction of Dandelion. 



(a) Boil 4 ounces of bruised dandelion in 1 

 pints of distilled water to a pint, and strain. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Diuretic, slightly 

 aperient, and specially acting on the liver. 



(c) Used in torpid conditions of the liver, 

 jaundice, habitual constipation, etc. 



(<7) Dose. 2 or 3 ounces twice or thrice a 

 day. 



Decoction of Iceland Moss. 



(a) Boil 5 drachms of Iceland moss in a pint 

 and a half of water down to a pint, and strain. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Tonic, emollient, 

 slightly astringent. 



(c) Used in consumption and dysentery. 



(d) Dose. 1 to 2 ounces. 

 Decoction of Logwood, 



(a) Boil 10 drachms of sliced logwood in 

 1 pints of water to a pint, and strain. 



(ft) Therapeutical effects. Astringent and 

 tonic. 



(c) Used in diarrhoea and dysentery. 



(rf) Dose. 1 ounce to 2 ounces after each 

 action of the bowels. 



Decoction of Poppyheads. 



(a) Boil five ounces of bruised poppyheads in 

 3 pints of water for a quarter of an hour, and 

 strain. 



(6) Therapeutical effects. Anodyne and 

 soothing. 



(c) Used as a fomentation in painful swell- 

 ings and inflammation. 



