Cog

“ Coggs was clearly the culprit.
"Do you encourage your boys to make common nuisances of themselves in a public place, may I ask, Dr. Grimstone?" he inquired, fuming.
"Some scarcely seem to require encouragement, Bultitude," said the Doctor pointedly: "what is the matter now?"
"If he takes it medicinally," said Paul, "he should choose some other time and place to treat his complaint. If he has a depraved liking for the abominable stuff, for Heaven's sake make him refrain from it on occasions when it is a serious annoyance to others!" ”

“ Grimstone; 'Cornelius Coggs—stand up!'
Coggs half rose in a limp manner, whimpering feebly, 'Me, sir? Oh, please sir—no, not me, sir!'
'Yes, you, sir, and let your companions regard you with the contempt and abhorrence you so richly merit!' Here, needless to say, the whole school glared at poor Coggs with as much virtuous indignation as they could summon up at such short notice; for contempt is very infectious when communicated from high quarters.
'So, Coggs,' said the Doctor, with a slow and withering scorn, 'so you thought to defy me ”

“ One day Nasr Eddin Efendi went to the mountain to cut wood; after he had cut the wood he loaded his ass, and began to drive him home. The Efendi’s ass, however, would hardly move. A person coming up, said, ‘Put a little sal ammoniac into the --- of the ass.’ The Cogia finding a little sal ammoniac, put it in; whereupon the ass began to run so quickly that the Cogia was left far behind. ‘I would fain see the cause of this,’ said the Cogia, and clapped a little of the sal ammoniac to his own ---. ”

“ They are not subject to the evils attending the use of fixed cogs which must almost necessarily be broken in their first contact with a rock laid at the foot, or top of an incline plane if they do not chance to enter into gear, and whose stubbornness subjects them to frequent accidents, an injury, besides the great friction which attends their action under all circumstances. The retreating cogs are endowed with the faculty of getting out of the way when not wanted, and of instantly being in-service without prompting, when they need is necessary. ”

“ It was a condition of the marriage that Cogan should enter the more settled profession of medicine, and he accordingly matriculated at Leyden on 16 Oct. 1765, and took his degree of M.D. in 1767. Restlessness was his characteristic in early life, and he is said to have practised during the few years which he passed in Holland ‘successively at Amsterdam, Leyden, and Rotterdam.’ From the latter city he returned to London and settled in Paternoster Row, where he soon obtained a lucrative practice, especially in midwifery. ”

“ A slang term derived from the members of the celebrated Cogers’ Club in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. They styled themselves “Cogers” from the Latin cogito, to think deeply.
Cohees. Natives of Western Pennsylvania, owing to their addiction to the phrase “Quoth he,” softened into Quo’he.
Coin Money. To make money as fast as it is turned out at the Mint. Few men are so fortunate.
Coke Hat. After William Coke, who popularised it. See “Billycock.”
64Coldbath Fields. A district of Clerkenwell now long built over, but famous for a cold bath; the site is marked by the present Bath Street. ”

“ Henery Fray was the first to follow. Then Gabriel arose and went off with Jan Coggan, who had offered him a lodging. A few minutes later, when the remaining ones were on their legs and about to depart, Fray came back again in a hurry. Flourishing his finger ominously he threw a gaze teeming with tidings just where his eye alighted by accident, which happened to be in Joseph Poorgrass's face. ”

“ The Coagulum of the Mucilage made with an Acid, and the Infusion of the Peruvian Bark and several other Astringents, I kept and dried, which when they were first put to the Teeth, seemed a little gritty, though after they were moist they were of a softer Nature. All the Mixtures made of the Mucilage with an Acid and an Austere, produced not only a plentiful Coagulation of a white Colour, but such a one as was of a thicker Consistence, and not Soluble in fair Water, as that was which was made with an Acid only. ”

“ It will be a source of consolation to every anxious mother, that this valuable compound which operates so beneficially in Coughs, is also equally excellent in Hooping Cough; indeed, its balsamic, pectoral, expectorant, and emollient properties, render it peculiarly adapted to eradicate the worst stages of the complaint, for the reasons before advanced. It may be given in the quantity of a tea-spoonful, three or four times a day, in honey, or on lump sugar, as the urgency of the case demands. The contents of a 2s. 9d. bottle, seldom or ever fail to develope its specific qualities in such cases. ”

“ Two million bushels of cobs are wasted every year in the United States. Can't something be made out of them? This is the question that is agitating the chemists of the Carbohydrate Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. They have found it possible to work up the corn cobs into glucose and xylose by heating with acid. But glucose can be more cheaply obtained from other starchy or woody materials and they cannot find a market for the xylose. This is a sort of a sugar but only about half as sweet as that from cane. ”

“ The properties of cocillana are similar to ipecac. The dose of the fluidextract is from 10 to 20 minims. Each fluidounce of the extraordinary (!) dark-colored cough marvel of P. D. & Co. contains 40 minims of the tincture. If the tincture of cocillana is 10 per cent. (the average tincture strength) you can see that to get a minimal dose of the drug you would have to take 21⁄2 fluidounces of the syrup.
“Query: Can we still hang on to the old-fashioned cough mixtures freshly compounded by our druggists or shall we put our shoulders to the wheel and help P. D. & Co. ”

“ And if they let me have a lead-pencil to write with, there’s a keeper standing alongside to see I don’t try to shove the sharp end of it down my throat. Don’t they search my coop every little while? You know they do. Anyhow, I ain’t craving to make a messy job of it and probably be caught before it’s done, besides. I’m going clean and I’m going quick. What I want is just a nice little jolt of this here cyanide of potassium. You know about that stuff? You swallow it and it’s all over in a minute. That’s what I want—one little shot of that cyanide stuff. ”

“ Cocainæ Hydrochloras, Hydrochlorate of Cocaine (Off.) .
Off. Dose.—1⁄5 to 1 grain, but less and more may be given, in aqueous solution, pill, or pastil.
This salt has been most used: if pure it is in hard, colourless, short, acicular, granular-looking crystals, or, now more frequently met with, in light, shining, lamellar crystals, free from odour and almost tasteless; being soluble in half its weight of water, the tingling numbness and local anæsthesia which it produces on the tongue are more intense than that produced by pure cocaine. ”

“ OUTLINE OF COCA PLANT.
(Showing leaves and seeds. Nos. 1 and 2, Coca leaves seen by transmitted light.)
All illustrations in this volume have been specially prepared for this work, and are from original drawings from life by M. Mariani.
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INTRODUCTION.
Each race has its fashions and fancies. The Indian munches the betel; the Chinaman woos with passion the brutalizing intoxication of opium; the European occupies his idle hours or employs his leisure ones in smoking, chewing or snuffing tobacco. Guided by a happier instinct, the native of South America has adopted Coca. ”

“ Against cough and asthma, boil sage and fennel in sweetened ale, and sup it up hot, do so as often as need be. For morning qualms, boil in water eavthgall, sweeten with honey, give the man a good bowl full of a mornino-. In case blood ofush throuoh a mans mouth, take three tremisses [22] a weight of betony and cold goats milk, three cups full of it, and let the man drink, then he soon will be hale. For any mans inward tenderness, let him take waybroad, let him put it into wine and sip the ooze, and eat the worts: it is valid for every inward disease. ”

“ The following are also ready solvents, each taking up about 1 of it in 3 parts: benzol, toluol, and amylic alcohol; of petroleum spirit about 25 parts are required, much less if hot; from this solution, also from hot alcohol, wood spirit, acetone and chloroform it readily crystallizes on cooling. It is almost tasteless, but produces a tingling numbness on the tongue, and local anæsthetic action on all mucous membrane. Good Coca leaves yield 0.5 per cent. or more of Cocaine, but the average is less—if fermented, often nil. ”

“ Ignited in the air, it burns without residue. Its aqueous solution gives a white precipitate with carbonate of ammonium, soluble in excess. If one drop of solution of permanganate of potassium, B.P., be added to a solution of 1 grain of it in a drachm of [Pg 59] distilled water, acidulated with three drops of diluted sulphuric acid, the bright deep colour of the solution, if kept covered, should not change during half an hour, indicating absence of other alkaloids of Coca, or any other organic matter. ”

“ Let the animal have plenty of cool fresh air, the body being kept warm by means of horse-cloths and bandages. If necessary, give a mild physic-ball, or a clyster; keep it on a soft, laxative diet, and give it an ounce of nitre daily. Should there be sore throat or troublesome cough apply a mild blister of cantharides or mustard.
The following will be found a serviceable mixture:—Mendererus spirit, 11⁄2 oz.; sweet spirit of nitre, 2 drachms; syrup of sugar, 1⁄2 oz.; camphor mixture, enough to make a 6-oz. mixture. An adult may take two table-spoonfuls of this mixture every 3 or 4 hours. ”

“ We have reviewed the works of the different authors who occupied themselves with Coca; their various labors, although very interesting, did not reach the famous discovery of local anæsthesia, and it is to Köller, of Vienna [10] , that the honor belongs of having brought to light the remarkable effect of Cocaine when applied to the conjunctival membrane.
This soon awakened general curiosity. From all quarters came works on the subject. Reuss, Kœnigstein, Jellinck, Schrotter, Knapp and others hastened to give to the profession the result of their researches. ”

“ Both Pöppig and Von Tschudi give a doleful account of the intemperate use of Coca by the inveterate coquero, as he is called,—his bad breath, pale lips and gums, greenish and stumpy teeth, and an ugly black mark at the angles of his mouth, his unsteady gait, yellow skin, dim and sunken eyes encircled by a purple ring, his quivering lips, and his general apathy—all bear evidence of the baneful effects of the Coca when taken in excess. ”

“ Thus has been realized Réveil's prediction: "This substance (Coca) is destined to take an important rank in therapeutics."
In the Revue de Thérapeutique médicaux-chirurgicale, June 11, 1876, page 381. Bibliographie: Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des sciences médicales, par A. Dechambre, Dr. H. Cottin thus closes his article:
"In France, we are using a great deal of Coca wine, and it is tending to take the place of all other tonic wines; it is borne a longer time by the stomach and is more agreeable to the palate. ”

“ Dose.—1⁄2 to 2 drachms.
Coca leaves are exhausted by percolation with proof spirit, the second part of percolate concentrated and dissolved in the first portion, and the strength adjusted so that 1 ounce=1 of leaves; this preparation contains all the properties of the leaf. If freed from the coca wax it is miscible with water and more palatable, and, so purified, if added to port, sherry, or burgundy, in the proportion of half a teaspoonful to a wineglassful (about an ounce to a bottle) , it forms an exhilarating mental stimulant. ”

“ DISEASES OF THE STOMACH.
Authors who have given attention to Coca speak very highly of its employment in gastralgia and tardy and laborious digestion.
Demarle says on this subject: "Personally, I have found the use of Coca, either before or after eating, excellent for gastrodynia and pyrosis, to which I am subject; hardly have I swallowed the first bit of saliva when the whole unpleasant feeling disappears."
Mantegazza speaks of its use in the same strain. The cephalic congestion which accompanies his digestion is relieved; he can work after eating without feeling any uneasiness. ”

“ For reasons of practical economy in factory working, it is usual to allow sheet rubber to remain over night, and the coagulum receives attention early next morning. During the interval (averaging about eighteen hours) , the coagulum consolidates, leaving an almost clear serum if the correct quantity of acid has been added to the latex. Any but the very slightest trace of milkiness in the serum indicates an insufficiency of coagulant. If the serum is always definitely clear, there may be grounds for believing that an excess is being used. ”

“ No person, however, need suffer a Cough to fix upon him, if he will have timely recourse to this medicine; but if either by neglect or ignorance of the remedy, or other remedies, it has become habitual and confirmed, the use of this specific for a short period, twice or thrice a day, with an occasional dose of some gentle opening medicine, will complete the cure. This course must not be omitted by young persons especially, because, if the Cough in its early stages is neglected, Consumption will inevitably be produced. ”

“ When a vegetable or mineral acid is added to milk, and heat applied, a coagulum is formed, which, when separated from the liquid portion, constitutes cheese. Neutral salts, earthy and metallic salts, sugar, and gum Arabic, as well as some other substances, also produce the same effect; but that which answers the purpose best, and which is almost exclusively used by dairy farmers, is rennet, or the mucous membrane of the last stomach of the calf. Alkalies dissolve this curd at a boiling heat, and acids again precipitate it. ”