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Milk thickened with arrowroot, tapioca, sago, or slippery-elm, may be taken as food. In the ASIATIC CHOLERA, there is a total suppression of bile, and a profuse cold, clammy sweat over the body ; the cramps become fearful, the stomach and bowels are emptied by vomit, &c. — and exhaustion becomes apparent, giddiness, deafness, sinking of the eyes and nostrils, blueness of the skin, lips and nails ; weakness of voice, &c., are often fatal symptoms. To cure the same, as for English Cholera, but more active. Give the Neutralizing Mixture ; and this Injection; — Bogberry, 3 drachms; scullcap, 1 drachm ; slippery-elm, 1 drachm ; boiling water, % a pint. Infuse ten minutes ; then add two tea-spoonfuls of tincture of myrrh, eight drops of laudanum, CHO 125 CLA mini, anil a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda. Foment as in English cholera, or with the Rheumatic Liniment. Apply as hot as possible. Apply also friction to the limbs ; or apply hot bricks, wrapped in vinegar cloths, to the feet, legs, and sides. Give a teaspoonful of the Anti-Cholera Drops every half hour, which see, page 20. The following Anti-Cholera Mixture is a sovereign remedy : — tormentil root, i ounce ; bayberry bark, 1 ounce ; cayenne pepper, % ounce ; carbonate of soda, % ounce. Simmer forty minutes in three pints of water down to 1 quart. Strain, and add tincture of myrrh, 2 ounces, and 1 drachm of camphor, dissolved in spirits of wine. In the first attack of cholera, give a wineglassful ; place the feet in hot salt and water, or mustard and water, and repeat the mixture every twenty minutes, and apply mustard plaster, and hop poultice to the stomach. Rub freely the cramped and drawn parts of the body with boiled cayenne pepper and vinegar ; and the effects will in most cases appear like magic. Such treatment has cured thousands upon thousands. CHOLERA IN INFANTS is treated in the same way as English cholera, but in a milder, and more restricted manner. CHRISTMAS PUDDING.— Suet, 1 lA lbs., minced small ; currants, iK lbs. ; raisins, stoned, % lb. ; sugar, 1 lb. ; ten eggs, a grated nutmeg ; 2 ozs. of mixed spice, a teaspoonful of grated ginger, % lb. of bread crumbs, % lb. of flour, 1 pint of milk, and a wine-glassful of brandy. Beat first the eggs, add half the milk, beat altogether, and gradually stir in all the milk, then the suet, fruit, &c., and as much milk to mix it very thick. Boil in a cloth six or seven hours. Another. — Flour, suet, currants, raisins, of each 1 lb. ; nine eggs ; 2 ozs. of candied peel ; almonds and spices, according to taste. Boil in a cloth six or seven hours. CIDER CUP. — Grate nutmeg and ginger ; put it in a cup with a wellbrowned toast ; on these pour two glasses of sherry, or one of pale brandy ; then add cider. A few fresh borage leaves add to the refreshing appearance of the cup. CINNAMON. — This valuable spice comes chiefly from Ceylon. It is a most useful aromatic. Its effects are stimulating, carminative, tonic, and wanning ; but it is used rather as an adjunct to other remedies than as a remedy itself. The oil is a most powerful stimulant, and is used in cramps of the stomach, and in syncope, or in paralysis of the tongue. CINNAMON CORDIAL. Take 8 lbs. of cinnamon, broken ; 17 gals, of rectified spirit, and 2 gals, of water. Digest in the still 24 hours by a gentle heat ; draw 16 gallons by a stronger heat.