Covalam

Called also cucurbitifera trifolia, etc. beli, seu serifole Bengalensium, capotes, cydonia exotica. Crataeva marmelos Lin. Sp. Pi. 637.

It is a tall tree, growing in Malabar, and in the island of Ceylon: its fruit is shaped like an apple; the outer rind is thin and green; under it is a woody one, inclosing a viscid yellowish moist substance, of a sweetish acid taste, in which are long, flat, white seeds; it is turgid, with a gummy pellucid juice. This fruit is astringent whilst unripe; but when ripe, of a delicious taste. The bark of the tree strengthens the stomach, and relieves hypochondriac languors. Raii Hist. A species of sterculia, called tongchu, greatly resembles this plant, of which M. Correa has formed a new genus. Linnaean Transactions, vol. v.

Couvre Chef

Le grand. Couvre chef, en triangle. See Rice, Deligatio, 5, 7.

Cowperi Glandulae

Cowper's glands, from the discoverer. They are small, hemispherical, and compound. One of them is situated on each side of the urethra, without the corpus spongiosum and acceleratores muscles, between the bulb and prostate. Each has an excretory duct, through which a mucus is evacuated upon the internal surface of the urethra for its defence. Whether there be other glands belonging to this part, as some authors assert, is uncertain. In women we observe, before the hymen, an orifice on each side, from Cowper's glands, which lie upon each side of the perinaeum, and serve the same purpose as in the male. They are called also muscosae glandulae, and glandule vasculares.

Coxa

See Femur.

Coxae Dolores

Sec Ischiadicus morbus.

Coxae Ossa

See Os innominatum.

Coxendix

(From coxa, the hip.). See Ischium, and Os innominatum.

Coyutena Luzonis

See Fagara major.

Coztieczocotl

Sec Mecaxocotlifera.

Crab Lice

A species of pediculus, which infests the axilla: and pudenda. They fix to the skin, and are with difficulty removed. They are, however, easily destroyed by slight mercurials, cither in an ointment or lotion.

Crab Yaws

A name in Jamaica for a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with callous lips, so hard that it is difficult to cut them. The unguentum hydrar-gyri fortius is the best remedy.

Crade

In Hippocrates it is the branch of a fig-tree.

Cradle

A moveable bed to lull children to sleep; and a case in which broken limbs are placed, whose arched top prevents inconvenience from the weight of the bed clothes.

Craeca Major

See Vicia.

Craepale

And Crapula, (from the head, and to agitate). A disorder of the head, produced by excess both in eating and drinking. Indigestion.

Crambe

(From the Arabic word caromb). A cab-iiage. See Brassica.

Crambeion

(See Cicuta.) In Hippocrates it signifies a decoction of cabbage, (from a cabbage).

Crangon

Also called squilla crangon, and the prawn. It is a sea shell fish of a delicate flavour, affording a light and easily digestible food.