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Croconic Acid. This is procured from eroconate of potass by absolutealcohol, with a little sulphuric acid.

Chocus. An old term applied to oxides, and other preparationsmetals.

Choton. See Cascarilla, and Tiglii Oleum.

Crotonic Acid is formed by converting croton oil into soap. Itcalled Jatkophic Acid.

Crown Bark. See Cinchona.

Crystals of Tartar. See Potasss Supertartras.

Cubkba. L. D. P. Cubebs, or Java Pepper, Piper aibeba, an aromaticspice, warm and stimulant, and acting particularly on the mucousmembranes of the lungs, the urethra, and bladder, &c. Its action,indeed, is much the same as cojiaiba, and less stimulant and hot thanpepper. The dose is a dessert-spoonful thrice a day, in a glass ofwater, or in form of tincture, when inflammation is not present,§iv of bruised cubebs, to Oj of alcohol, digested seven days, andstrained. The good effects will be manifest in 48 hours after thefirst dose.Adulterated with the dried berries of Turkish buckthorn, which are solike as scarcely to be detected. The cubebs have little stalks tothem, and are hence called tailed pepper.

Cuckoo Flower. See Cardamixe Phatensis.

Cud-Bear. A dye stuff procured from lichens.

Cumini Semina. L. P. Cumin Seeds, Cuminum cyminmn, have a warm,bitter, and nauseous taste, and a heavy smell. They are stimulantand antispasmodic; but are only used externally in plasters for coldindolent tumours. By the ancients they were used as a cosmetic forproducing paleness of the face.Enters into Emplast. Cumini. L.

Cupri Subacetas. D. Acetate of Copper, a tonic stimulant, given indoses of gr. -i-, increasing to gr. ij for epilepsy, &c.Incompatible with alkaline preparations and sulphuric acid.

Cupri Ammoniati Aqua. D. Solution of Ammoniated Copper.

Cupri Sulphas. L. E. D. P. The Sulphate, Per-sulphate, or Deuto-sulphate of copper, Blue vitriol, or Blue stone, prepared by dissolvingone part of copper filings in two parts of sulphuric acid. It occursin fine deep blue crystals, which have a disagreeable styptic metallictaste. It contains one proportional of the peroxide of copper, two ofsulphuric acid, and, when crystallized, ten of water. It does noteffervesce with sulphuric acid, as the subacetate of copper does.Incompatible with all astringent vegetables, with earths, alkalies, andtheir carbonates, with the acetates of iron, lead, and ammonia, withthe sub-borate of soda, the muriate of lime, and tartrate of potash,