CANDLE is also a term in medicine, and is reckoned among the instruments of surgery. Thus the candela fumalis, or the candela pro fustitu odorata, is a mass of an oblong form, consisting of odoriferous powders, mixed up with a third, or more, of the charcoal of willow or lime-tree, and reduced to a proper consistence with a mucilage of gum-tragacanth, ladanum, or turpentine. It is intended to excite a grateful smell without any flame, to correct the air, to fortify the brain, and to excite the spirits.