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527&#93; CIC bination of oil with water ; an in- stance of which occurs in the milk of almonds. As the cb vie is, by Nature., in- tended to form the blood, to supply the body with nutritious juices for the daily loss and waste it sustains, it is obvious that this salutarv pro- cess ought not to be interrupted by violent exercise 2tter meals ; be- cause the chyle is supposed not to be completely secreted, till about four hours alter the food has been taken. Dr. Darwin observes that, tho' the chyle, from different kinds of aliment, is very similar, and all the various constituent parts of animal bodies are ultimately produced from the chyle, by sanguification juad secretion, yet it happens, that some VA: rlv nf aliment possess a greater quantity of these particles, <"han others : such . torials, for i' stance, as already oont'»?'n much sugar, mucilage, and oil, is the flesh of ds ...j. - kft, fruits and seeds of vegetables. CICELY, the Sweet, or great chervil, or shepherd's needle, the Scandi.v odoraiti, L. is a native plant, growing in orchards, hedges, and waste places, but generally nenr houses ; and is chieflv found in the counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancaster, and V <_>r- cester. It is perennial, produces white flowers, which blow in the month of May or June, and seeds of a sweet and agreeable taste. The whole plant has an aromatic scent, and its seeds are used in the north of England, for polishing and perfuming oak-flours, and furni- ture : they also yield an essential oil, similar to that obtained from anise-seeds — The fresh leaves and stalks of the sweet cicely impart to wool a fine- citron yellow dye, when C I N [5*7 prepared in a solution of bismuth 5 as asserted by Dambourney. Cichory. See Wild Succory. CINNABAR, in natural his- tory, is either native, or factitious. The former is an ore of quick- silver, moderately compact, very heavy, and of a beautiful striated, red colour. The latter is compos- ed of six, or eight parts of mercury, to one of sulphur; the whole is sublimed, and thus reduced into a fine, red glebe. The best is of a high colour, and full of fibres, re- sembling needles: the chief use of cinnabar is for painting. Formerly, the native cinnabar was much employed in medicine, as a sedative and antispasmodic powder, which is stiil vended in Germany, for the use of the igno- rant, who take a dose of it after every alarm, or fright. But as this metallic substance contains arsenical particles, of which it can- not be cleared by repeated ablution, it frequently occasions nausea, trembling, and anxiety; which, however, subside after vomiting. — We should not have mentioned this substance, had we not learnt from a pamphlet, published by Dr. LEJTSoM/ih.u a late famous Quack (whose son and widow now con- tend in the newspapers, for the authenticity of his prescriptions ; and still trifle with the lives of un- wary persons), administered the native cinnabar, in red powders, of which he kept «>-. ; .r kinds, containing different proportions of this pig- ment, in order to deceive the pa- tients by agreater variety of colours. — Yv r hen will this outrage on hu- manity terminate? CINNAMON, is the bark of the true cinnamon tree, or Laurus c'niiiamonium, L. — but an inferior sort, which is often sold for ge- nuine,