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pounds of good moist sugar. Put it in a cask, in a warm dry room,to ferment; skim off the refuse, and fill up with the reserved liquor,and when it has ceased working, add three quarts of hrandy forevery 40 quarts of wine. Bung it close for nine months, then bottleit, and keep it a year.Cubry Powder is procured chiefly from India, and is a mixture of anumber of savoury ingredients, much used in flavouring soups, andother dishes.

Imitation Curry Powder is made by drying and pulverizing very finelyjiij each of coriander-seed and turmeric, 3J each of black pepper,mustard, and ginger, Jss of cardamom-seeds freed from the husks,one-fourth of an ounce each of cayenne pepper, and cumin-seed.Keep in a bottle closely stopped.Cuscuta EuROrjEA. P. Dodder, a native parasitic plant, feebly bitterand inodorous. Deobstruent in visceral obstructions and intermit-tent s.CusrARi^E Cortex. L. E. D. P. Angustura Bark, Bonplandia tri-Jbliata, a native of South America, very bitter, and slightly aro-matic, and of a weak but peculiarly fishy smell. It contains cin-chonia.

Adulterated with the bark of several species of Strychnos, and of theBrucxa antidyscnterica, which is called False Angustura; but is aviolent poison. It is more intensely bitter than the genuine, is nearlyblack on the inner surface, while the genuine is brownish-yellow,and on the outer surface is covered with a substance resembling rustof iron, while the genuine is whitish and wrinkled.

Incompatible with infusion of galls and yellow Peruvian bark, withpotass and the mineral acids, with acetate of lead, the sulphates ofcopper and iron, nitrate of silver, tartarized antimony, and the oxy-muriate of mercury.

Medicinally it is tonic, stimulant, carminative, and a warm stomachic,in doses of gr. v to 3jss of the powder, in dyspepsia, dysentery,flatulence, hysteria, and intermittents.

Enters into Infus. Cuspariae. L. Tinct. Angustura 3 . D.Cuttle-Fish Bone. See Os SepijE.

Cyanic Acid op Liebeg is prepared by dissolving 100 grains ofmercury in an ounce and a half by measure of nitric acid sp. gr.1*3, and when cold adding by measure two ounces of alcohol sp.gr. 0'849- This is heated till it effervesces briskly, when a detonat-ing compound is formed, which is composed of cyanic acid and oxideof mercury.

M. Wohler's Cyanic Acid is obtained by transmitting sulphurettedhvdrogen gas through water in which cyanate of silver is sus-