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New England castor, Castoreum nov(B AnglicB. Very different 

 smell from the former, but sold for it. 



Civet, Zihethum. From civet bags, yellowish white, soft, 

 unctuous, like honey, smell unpleasant, unless diluted : antispas- 

 modic, but scarcely ever used alone internally ; used in perfumery 

 to augment the smell of other substances ; when burned smells 

 disagreeably ; entirely soluble in oils. — Pole-cat civet. Sold for 

 civet, dark colour. 



Raw silk, Sericinn, Secreted by the Phalena bombyx, for 

 its security while in the state of a pupa or grub ; cordial, restora- 

 tive, 3j in powder. 



Cobweb, Tela aranearum. Secreted by spiders to form their 

 nets ; externally styptic, internally febrifuge ; used in quartan 

 agues, dose gr. x ; the cobwebs of the different kinds of spiders 

 appear, however, to differ in their effects. 



Stick lac, Lacca in ramulis, Lacca in haculis. Deposited by 

 the coccus lacca on the branches of trees. 



Seed lac, Lacca in granis, L. in seminis. Stick lac which has 

 been broken off the branches, and digested in warm water by the 

 dyers for the extraction of its colour; brownish. East Indian. 



Lump lac, L. in massis. Seed lac melted into cakes. — Shell 

 lac, L. in tabnlis. Seed lac boiled in water, by which its colour 

 has been extracted, and then poured upon a wet slab ; transparent, 

 lightish red. East Indian light orange, retail. — Calefacient, 

 atlenuant, aperitive, diaphoretic, diuretic ; used in dentifrices, in 

 varnishes, and to form sealing-wax. 



Ceylon lac, L. Zeylanica. Deposited upon the Croton lacci- 

 ferum ; is in red sticks, purer than that deposited by the coccus 

 lacca, astringent, dyes silk red. — Charon. A black lac, used in 

 the Burniah dominions for lacquer. — Awel urruk. A coarse lac, 

 used in India for cement. — Erythina lac. Deposited upon Ery- 

 ihina monosperma. 



Carmine, Carminum, Purpura vegetahilis. Boil 5) of cochi- 

 neal, finely powdered, in 12 or 14 lb. of rain or distilled water in 

 a tinned copper vessel for three minutes; then add alum gr. xxv, 

 and contniuc the boiling for two minutes longer, and let it cool ; 

 draw off the clear liquor, as s(xjn as it is only blood warm, into 

 shallow voHscls, put them by for a couple of days, by wliich time 

 llu- will have settled. In case the carmine does not sc- 



par.i ^ , f^b'' ^ ^^^^' tJrops of muriate of tin, /. r. dyers' spirit, 

 or of a solution of green vitriol, will throw it down immediately ; 

 the water being then drawn off, the carmine is dried in a warm 

 tto\'e, and should be entirely soluble in liquid ammonia. The 

 first coarse sediment serves to make Florence lake ; the water 

 drawn off is liquid rouge. 



