Cakes

(In medicine .) Cakes have been used as a form of administering medicinal substances to children, but have not been extensively employed in this country for the purpose, unle by quacks and in domestic practice. In preparing them the active ingredients are added in such proportions to the common materials of a sweet cake that one or two, as the case may be, are sufficient for a dose. See Gingerbread , Worm-cakes , .