Crossword-Solution: CRUSTA 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The _crusta_ceous party had been long triumphing in the fact, that a mouldy piece of bread had been found at two feet below the surface, when digging for the foundation of a swing erected in a garden in the neighbourhood; but the _carboni_ferous enthusiasts had been thrown into ecstacies, by the sexton having come upon a regular _strata_ of undoubted cinders, in clearing out a piece of ground at the back of the parson's residence.

Some evil-disposed persons had the malice to say that the spot had been formerly the site of a subsequently-filled-up dusthole; but the _crusta_ceous party, depending as they did upon a single piece of bread--_all crumb_ too--however genuine, could not be said to have so much to go upon as the _carboni_ferous section, with their heap of cinders, the latter being large in quantity, though of doubtful authority.

For the Scald Head of children, where there is a discharge of yellow and watery pus from the sores, and the eruption extends to the ears or face, like the disease called the _crusta lactea_ (milk crust), the same washes as for itch, are the most effectual, while at the same time, and for a month or two, the child should have _Hepar Sul._ 5th at night, and _Petroleum_ 3d in the morning.

The face in infants (_crusta lactea_, or _milk crust_, of older writers), the neck, flexor surfaces and the fingers are its favorite localities.

From the internal capsule, the motor fibres pass as the _pyramidal tract_ through the crusta of each crus cerebri, the pons and the medulla oblongata.