(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.
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.