(The receipt for this tincture will be found under the article ANODYNE.)
Hot water 8 or 10 oz.
Mix.
3. Tincture of opium ½ to 1 oz.
Essence of peppermint (see
PEPPERMINT) 1 dr.
Water 10 or 12 oz.
4. Oil of turpentine 4 oz.
Gruel 10 or 12 oz.
Mr. Bracey Clark recommends, above all other remedies, a tincture of
allspice, made by digesting one pound of bruised allspice in three
quarts of proof spirit. Of this he gives four ounces in a little water
every hour until the horse is relieved.
CARMINATIVE, _a._ Belonging to carminatives.
CARNIVOROUS, _a._ Flesh-eating; a term applied to birds and animals.
Carnivorous birds are distinguished by those endowments and powers with
which they are furnished by nature for the purpose of procuring their
food. They are provided with wings of great length, the muscles which
move them being proportionally large and strong; whereby they are
enabled to keep long upon the wing, in search of their prey. They are
armed with strong hooked bills, and sharp and formidable claws. They
have also large heads, short necks, strong and brawny thighs, and a
sight so accurate and piercing, as to enable them to view their prey
from the greatest heights in the air, upon which they dart with
inconceivable swiftness and undeviating aim. Their stomachs are smaller
than those of the granivorous kind, and their intestines are much
shorter.—_Bewick._
CAROTID, _s._ Two arteries which arise out of the ascending trunk of
the aorta.
CARP, _s._ A pond and river fish, very abundant in Great Britain.
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The carp is the queen of rivers; a stately, a good and a very subtle
fish; that was not at first bred, nor hath been long in England, but is
now naturalised. It is said, they were brought hither by one Mr. Mascal,
a gentleman that then lived at Plumsted in Sussex, a county that abounds
more with fish than any in this nation.
Carps and loaches are observed to breed several months in one year,
which pikes and most other fish do not. And this is partly proved by
tame and wild rabbits: and also by some ducks which will lay eggs nine
of the twelve months; and yet there be other ducks that lay not longer
than about one month. And it is the rather to be believed, because you
shall scarce or never take a male carp without a melt, or a female
without a roe or spawn, and for the most part very much, and especially
all the summer season. And it is observed, that they breed more
naturally in ponds than in running waters, if they breed there at all;
and that those that live in rivers are taken by men of the best palates
to be much the better meat.
I told you that Sir Francis Bacon thinks that the carp lives but ten
years: but Janus Dubravius has writ a book _Of Fish and Fish Ponds_, in
which he says, that carps begin to spawn at the age of three years, and
continue to do so till thirty: he says also, that in the time of their
breeding, which is in summer, when the sun hath warmed both the earth
and water, and so apted them also for generation, that then three or
four male carps will follow a female; and that then, she putting on a
seeming coyness, they force her through weeds and flags, where she lets
fall her eggs or spawn, which sticks fast to the weeds; and then they
let fall their melt upon it, and so it becomes in a short time to be a
living fish: and, as I told you, it is thought that the carp does this
several months in the year.—_Walton._
CARRIER, _s._ One who carries something; a species of pigeons.
CARRION, _s._ The carcass of something not proper for food; flesh
corrupted. Relating to carcasses.