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2 before going to bed, with the green peel, not too thinly cut, for
3 three consecutive nights; when the cockroaches will collect about
4 the pieces and greedily devour them, and the disappearance of
5 these troublesome visitors be thereby procured.
6 Cucum. sat. sals, tinctura (I.) Rheumatic pain of the
7 shoulders.
8 Cucumis utilissimus — is the Cucumber most used, as a vege-
9 table, at Lahore, where it is met with half a yard in length, and is
10 commonly eaten raw by the natives. The powder of the roasted
11 seeds is described as a powerful diuretic, and serviceable in pro-
12 moting the passage of sand or gravel. (B. Disp.)
13 Cucurbita Citrulijs — Melons are cultivated in the Punjab ;
14 but, the largest and finest are brought from Umritsir to Lahore.
15 From their seeds are prepared by the Hakims cooling beverages.
16 Cucurb. Citrull. semina (I.)
17 Cucurbita Lagenaria. Lagenaria vulgaris — In the wild
18 state the fruit is poisonous, producing symptoms like those of
19 Cholera. Dr. Lindley states, that some sailors were poisoned in
20 England by drinking beer which had been kept in a flask made
21 of one of these gourds. (B. Disp.)
22 Cucurbita Pepo— is cultivated in Lahore.
23 Cuminum Cyminum — is used by the Hakims in flatulency,
24 affection of the spine, suppression of milk, of urine and cata-
25 menia.
26 Cumini semina (I.) Psorophthalmia. Thoracic pain.
27 Cupressus sempervirens nux ( strobuli 8f folia) — are
28 officinal at Lahore, they are procured from the hills.
29 Cupress. ( strobulus vel galbulus ) nux (I.) Rheumatic-
30 inflammatory toothache, with or without caries, fever
31 and swelling of the cheek.
32 Cuprum. — Copper in a state of oxyde is much used by the
33 natives of the East. They administer the sulphate of copper
34 internally as well as externally. An oxyde of copper, called
35 rnissee , is used bv the Musselmen all over Ilindostan, to slain
36 iheir teeth black and to strengthen the gums. v. Ainslie,
37 Vol. II., p. 513.
38 VOI.. II.