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COCAINIST 



of mild white wine. To be injected 2 or 3 times a day 

 atbody-heat. C. Meat Pancreas- (Leube's 1 ; I50gm. 

 good beef scraped and chopped fine; 80 gm. fresh pan- 

 creas (cow or hog) free from fat; mix with 150 gm. 

 lukewarm water, inject from 50 gm. to 100 gm. at a 

 time, by means of a simple funnel, and at blood-heat. 

 C, Nutritive (Boas); warm 250 gm. of milk, stir in 2 

 yolks of eggs and I teaspoonful of common salt and 1 

 tablespoonful of wheat starch, and afterward add one 

 tablespoonful of red wine. If the mucous membrane 

 is easily irritated, one may add 4 or 5 drops of tincture 

 of opium. C.| Nutritive (Ewald); 2 or 3 eggs beaten 

 smooth with I teaspoonful of cold water and a little 

 salt. Wheaten starch, y z teaspoonful, is boiled with 

 a cup ( 100 gm.) of a 2O c / solution of grape-sugar and 

 one wineglass (l50gm.) of red wine added. Then 

 the solution is cooled to 35 C. and the eggs stirred in 

 slowly. Inject at blood-heat. C, Nutritive (Jac- 

 coud); bouillon, 250 gm.; wine, 120 gm.; yolks of 2 

 eggs; and peptone, 5 to 2 ° g m - C., Nutritive 

 (Rosenheim); peptone, 4 to 8 gm.; 2 eggs; glucose, 

 15 gm., and sometimes, if desired, emulsions of cod- 

 liver oil. 



Cnemial {ne'-me-al') \_nvijjirj, the shin]. Relating to the 

 tibia or leg ; crural. 



Cnemoscoliosis [ne-mo-sko-le-o'-sis) \_KvrjjUj, the leg; 

 ono/Aog, curved]. Lateral curvature of the legs. 



Coagulation. (See Illus. Diet.) C. -necrosis, a 

 peculiar metamorphosis by which cells lose their nuclei 

 and change their chemic composition. 



Coagulin yko-ag'-u-lin) [coagnlare, to curdle]. A sub- 

 stance endowed with capacity to precipitate certain 

 albuminous bodies contained in the culture-fluid in- 

 jected into an inoculated animal. 



Coagulometer (leo-ag-u-lom' '-et-ur) \coagidare, to 

 curdle; fierpov, a measure]. An apparatus for the 

 determination of the rapidity of coagulation of the 

 blood. C, Wright's, a cylinder surrounded by 

 pockets for thermometer and coagulation-tubes. 



Coalitus (ko-al-i'-tus) [L.]. Coalescent ; coalescence. 

 C. artuum, adhesion of limbs to each other. See 

 Aiikylomele. 



Coast-cough (kost'-kof). The name given in New 

 South Wales to tuberculosis of cattle. 



Coat. (See Illus. Diet.) C, Adventitial. See Ad- 

 ventitia (Illus. Diet.). C, Areolar, one consisting of 

 areolar tissue. C, Cellular, C, Epithelial. See 

 Layer, Cellular. C, External. See Adventitia 

 (Illus. Diet.). C, External Elastic. See Lamina, 

 External Elastic. C, External Vascular. See 

 Membrane, Investing. C, Internal. See Intinia 

 (Illus. Diet.). C, Internal Elastic. See 1 fettle' s 

 Fenestrated Membrane (Illus. Diet.). C, Internal 

 Fibrous. See C, Subepithelial. C, Middle, the 

 tunica media. See under Artery (Illus. Diet.). C, 

 Subepithelial, the middle layer of the intima, com- 

 posed .>f fusiform and stellate cells and finely granular 

 substances with longitudinal and transverse fibrils. 

 Syn., £, Internal fibrous; C, fnner most longitudinal 

 liliroits [Remak]; Striated layer of the internal coat 

 [Kdlliker]; Intermediary layer [F.berth]. C, Uveal, 

 the uvea. C, Vaginal. 1. The fibrous capsule of the 

 eyeball. 2. See 'tunica vaginalis (Illus. Diet.). 



Cobalt. (See Illus. Diet.) C. -nitrate, C( X \0,) 2 + 

 6H,<), red, prismatic deliquescent crystals. It is said 

 to be a successful antidote in poisoning by hydrocyanic 

 ■cid and potassium cyanid. C. and Potassium 

 Nitrite, COK,,(N0 2 ) 6 , cobalt yellow, a powder slightly 

 soluble in water; antispasmodic and antidyspneic. 

 Dose, \i~% gr. (0.016-0.032 gm.). Syn., Potassium 

 cobaltonit/ite. C. Salipyrin, a salicylate of cobalt 

 and antipyrin occurring as a reddish powder. 



Cobra (ko'-brah*) [Port.]. A venomous snake of 

 India, A T aja tripudians. C.lysin, Myers' (1900) 

 term for the hemolytic poison of cobra venom. It is 

 destroyed by heat and neutralized by antivenene. Cf. , 

 Cobranervine ; Ecliidnase ; Echidnoto.xiu. C. ner- 

 vine, one of the principles isolated by Myers from 

 cobra venom. It is not decomposed by heat nor neu- 

 tralized by antivenene. 



Cocaethylin [ko-kalt-eth'-il-in). C ]8 H 23 N0 4 . A white 

 powder obtained from benzoylecgonin by action of 

 ethyl iodid. It is soluble in alcohol and ether and 

 almost insoluble in water ; it is a local anesthetic, 

 milder than cocain. Syn., Benzoylecgoninethylic ester ; 

 Homococain ; Ethylbenzoylecgouui . 



Cocain, Cocainum. (See Illus. Diet.) Syn., Methyl- 

 benzoylecgonin. C. -aluminium Citrate, a double 

 salt consisting of 3 molecules of aluminium citrate 

 and I of cocain, occurring in crystals easily soluble in 

 hot water, insoluble in alcohol. It is used as an 

 astringent and as a local anesthetic. C. -aluminium 

 Sulfate, a compound of aluminium sulfate and cocain. 

 It is used as cocain-aluminium citrate. C. Benzoate, 

 C 17 H 21 N0 4 . C-H 6 2 , an almost colorless, crystalline, 

 gummy mass, soluble in water and alcohol ; it is ano- 

 dyne and anesthetic. C. Borate, a white crystalline 

 powder containing 68.7% of cocain. It is used in 

 eye-douches and subcutaneous injections. C. Can- 

 tharidate, (C n H 2) NO 4 ) 2 C |0 H,. 2 O 4 , an odorless, white 

 powder with a saline taste; soluble in hot water, in- 

 soluble in cold water. It is used hypodermically in 

 tuberculosis; injection, t^-^V gr. in 500 pints of 

 chloroform-water. C. Carbolate, a crystalline mass 

 containing 75% of cocain; soluble in alcohol and in- 

 soluble in water. It is analgesic, anticatarrhal, and a 

 local anesthetic. Dose, 0.005-0. oil gm. once or 

 twice daily in capsules. Injection, 1 c.c. of 1 : 1250 

 solution in dilute alcohol. Application, 1', to 3 V 

 solution with 30 % alcohol, 5% powder, or pure. C. 

 Chlorid. See C. Hydrocliloras (Illus. Diet.). C. 

 Hydrobromate, C I7 H ?1 NO t HBr, small white crys- 

 tals soluble in water. It is used instead of C. Hydro- 

 chlorate and the dosage is the same. C. Hydro- 

 chlorid, C. Muriate. See C. Hydrocliloras (Illus. 

 Diet.). C. Hydroiodate, C I7 II 2 ,N0 4 . HI, col 

 crystals sparingly soluble in water ; it is a suggested 

 substitute for cocain hydrochlorate in producing elec- 

 troanesthesia. C. Lactate, Cj 7 H, 1 N0 4 C ! ,H 6 0j„ a 

 thick, white liquid of the consistency of honey ; it is 

 used particularly in tuberculous cysts of the bladder. 

 Injection (into the bladder), l}4 K r - dissolved in 5 

 parts each of lactic acid and distilled water. C. 

 Nitrate, C I7 H 21 N0 4 . HN0 3 , large, colored crystals 

 soluble in water. Dose as the hydrochlorate. It ii 

 used in combination with silver nitrate in treatment ot 

 the genitourinary tract. Maximum dose, gr. ; 4 

 (0.049 gm.), single; 2 l 4 gr. (0.1^6 gm.) per day. 

 C. Phthalate, a syrupy liquid soluble in water; it 

 contains 64.6^ of the alkaloid. It is used hypoder- 

 mically instead of cocain hydrochlorate. C. Saccha- 

 rate, moist crystalline plates used in diseases ol the 

 throat; »5'v solution corresponds to a 4$ solution of 

 cocain hydrochlorid. C. Salicylate, C l7 l I.,,\< >, . ('.- 

 H.O H , white crystals soluble in water; used in spas 

 modic asthma as cocain hydrochlorate. C. Stearate, 

 C„Hj 1 N0 4 C, 7 H S5 C< »OH, brilliant aggregated needles 

 melting at about 90 C ; soluble in alcohol and ether, 

 and slightly so in chloroform, petroleum, ben/in. and 

 oil of turpentine. C. Tartrate, ( (',.! l.,,Nt y,< ,1 1„ 

 8 , white powder, soluble in water; uses and d< 

 Cocain hydrochlorate. 



Q.ocz\r\\s\.' (ko-ka'-itt-ist). One addicted to habitual use 

 of cocain. 





