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wide-mouthed bottle. It has the inconvenience of being very tediousin drying. It is used for balloons.

Capers may be preserved by putting to them fresh vinegar that hasbeen scalded and become cold, and tying them close up to keep outthe air, which softens them.

Capillaire is prepared by breaking Ibxij of loaf sugar, and putting itinto a tinned pan with 12 pints of soft water, previously clearedwith the white of an egg. Bring it to boil, and add Ibj of honey,and one quart of orange-flower water. Skim it, let it cool, andstrain it through flannel. Bottle it soon, and cork the bottles well.Or, Put half a pint of orange-flower water to two quarts of clarifiedsugar, boil it a quarter of a hour, and bottle it up when cold,waxing the corks over.

Capric and Caproic Acids are volatile odoriferous compounds, formedfrom butyrine when it is converted into soap. (M. Chevreul.)

Capsici Bacce. L. E. D. The berries of Capsicum annuum, or CayennePepper, are long orange-red pendulous pods, whose taste is extremelyhot and acrid, and of a pungent odour.Adulterated in the ground state with common salt, red lead, colouredsawdust, and other substances. Lead may be detected by dissolvingthe powder in pure vinegar, when a black precipitate will be pro-duced by sulphuret of ammonia.Incompatible with ammonia, alum, infusion of galls, oxymuriate ofmercury, nitrate of silver, carbonate of soda and potass, acetate oflead, and the sulphates of copper, zinc, and iron.Medicinally it is a strong stimulant and carminative, and is made intopills with bread, the dose gr. vj to gr. x or more, twice or oftener inthe day, for dyspepsia, flatulence, scrofula, syphilis, mucous expecto-ration, leucorrhoea, and gonorrhoea; with opium it forms a powerfulrestorative tonic.Externally it forms a powerful rubefacient cataplasm over the stomach,or to the soles of the feet, in low delirium. It makes a good garglewith salt, vinegar, and infusion of roses, for quinsy and scarlatina.See Cayenne (Essence of.")

Capsicin. New. An alkaline principle found in cayenne pepper, butits properties are as yet little known.

Caraway. See Carui.

Caraway Cordial is made by mixing and fining down in the usualwa y 3J SS °f oil of caraway, 20 drops of oil of cassia, or cinnamon,5 drops each of essence of lemon and of orange peel, 13 gallons ofspirits, ftviij of loaf sugar. This will produce 20 gallons.

Carbazotates are salts formed of bases and carbazotic acid.

Carbazotic Acid is procured by dissolving bits of Indigo in eight or