Borax, two drachms; strong rose-water, twelve ounces; glycerine, three
ounces; mucilage of quince seed, ten drachms. Mix.--_Dr. E. A. C._
COLD CREAM.
Rose-water, half an ounce; oil of sweet almonds, half an ounce; pure
olive-oil, two ounces; spermaceti, half an ounce; white wax, one
drachm. Melt sperm and wax with the oil by means of water-bath. Then
add the rose-water, and stir till cool. When nearly cool, add oil of
roses or any other perfume desired.--_Dr. E. A. C._
CAMPHOR ICE.
White wax, two ounces; spermaceti, two ounces and two drachms;
camphor, six drachms. Melt, and add olive-oil, five ounces and five
drachms; glycerine, three drachms. Make into eighteen cakes.--_Dr. E.
A. C._
CAMPHOR SALVE FOR CHAPPED LIPS, HANDS, ETC.
Spermaceti, two drachms; white wax, two drachms; pulverized camphor,
two drachms; washed lard, half an ounce; pure olive-oil, half an
ounce. Melt in water-bath, and stir with it, while cooling, two
drachms glycerine.
_Note._--This is excellent, will relieve almost instantly, and will
cure in a few applications.--_Dr. E. A. C._
TOOTH POWDER.
Prepared chalk, two pounds; powdered orris-root, two pounds; powdered
white castile soap, quarter of a pound; powdered white sugar, quarter
of a pound; powdered pumice-stone, half an ounce; powdered carmine,
half an ounce; oil of lemon, half an ounce; oil of lavender, half an
ounce. Powder the carmine as fine as possible; then add to it the
pumice-stone, then the sugar, then the soap, orris, and chalk in
succession. Then add the flavoring drop by drop, mixing it thoroughly
with all the ingredients. Sift through the finest apothecaries'
sieve.--_Dr. E. A. C._
_For the Teeth._
Van Buskirk's Sozodont, manufactured by Hall & Ruckel, N. Y., is all
that it claims to be. I have known it tried ten years consecutively
with the happiest results.--_Mrs. S. T._
CHARCOAL TOOTH POWDER.
Powdered charcoal, six ounces; gum myrrh, one ounce; pale Peruvian
bark, one ounce. Mix thoroughly.--_Dr. E. A. C._
HAIR-OIL.
Pure olive-oil, six ounces; perfumed with oil of jessamine.--_Dr. E.
A. C._
_Hair-Oil._
Castor-oil, ten ounces; pure alcohol, six ounces. Perfume with oil of
bergamot or any other perfume preferred.--_Dr. E. A. C._
HAIR TONIC.
Glycerine, one and a half ounces; tincture cantharides (95 per cent.),
half an ounce; sulph. quinine, twenty grains; alcohol, four ounces.
Mix together; perfume with oil of roses.--_Dr. E. A. C._
_Another Hair Tonic._
Claimed to restore falling out hair, when baldness is not hereditary.
Tincture of cantharides (officinal), one ounce; glycerine, one and a
half ounce; rose-water, three and a half ounces.--_Dr. E. A. C._
HAIR DYE, NO. 1.
Pyrogallic acid, one drachm; distilled water, three ounces.
Dissolve.--_Dr. E. A. C._
NO. 2.
Nitrate of silver (crystals), one drachm; aqua ammonia, strong, two
drachms; distilled water, six drachms. Mix.--_Dr. E. A. C._
HAIR RESTORATIVE.
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