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N.B.—The dried plant is useless.
466.—Cure for Ringworm
The parts should be washed twice a day with soft soap and warm water;
when dry, rub them with a piece of linen rag dipped in ammonia from
gas tar; the patient should take a little sulphur and treacle, or some
other gentle aperient, every morning; brushes and combs should be
washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightly corked.
467.—Quinine Draught
For dyspepsia and hepatic derangement mix two grains of sulphate of
quinine, two drops of diluted sulphuric acid, one drachm of spirit of
nutmegs, and ten drachms of distilled water, and take daily at midday.
468.—Seidlitz Powders
Two drachms of tartarized soda and two scruples of bicarbonate of soda
for the blue paper; thirty grains of tartaric acid for the white
paper.
469.—Ginger-beer Powders
Half a drachm of bicarbonate of soda, with a grain or two of powdered
ginger and a quarter of an ounce of sugar, for the blue paper;
twenty-five grains of tartaric acid for the white paper.
470.—Lemonade Powders
Omit the ginger powder from the above, and to the water add a little
essence of lemon or lemon-juice.
PERFUMERY, COSMETICS, AND DENTIFRICE
471.—Indian Mode of Preparing Perfumed Oils
The natives never make use of distillation. The plan adopted is to
place on a large tray a layer of the flowers, about four inches thick
and two feet square; on this they put some of the til or sesamum seed,
wetted or damped, about two inches thick; on this, again, is placed
another layer of flowers, four inches thick; the whole is then covered
with a sheet, held down by weights at the sides, and allowed to remain
for eighteen hours. The flowers are then removed and replaced by
layers of fresh flowers, and the operation repeated three times, each
layer of fresh flowers being allowed to remain eighteen hours. After
the last process, the seeds are taken in their swollen state and
placed in a clean mill; the oil then expressed possesses most fully
the scent of the flowers. It is kept in prepared skins, called
dubbers, and sold at so much per seer. The jasmine, bela, and
chumbr�l are the flowers from which the natives chiefly produce the
oil.
472.—Remedy for Scurf in the Head
Drop a lump of fresh quicklime the size of a walnut into a pint of
water, and let it stand all night; pour the water off clear from
sediment, add a quarter of a pint of the best vinegar, and wash the
head with the mixture. It is perfectly harmless; only the roots of the
hair need be wetted.
473.—Imitative Bears’ Grease
Melt together until combined eight ounces of hogs’ lard and one-eighth
of an ounce each of flowers of benzoin and palm oil; stir until cold,
and scent at pleasure. This will keep a long time.
474.—Hair Grease
Dissolve a quarter of a pound of lard in a basin of boiling water;
when cold, strain off the water and squeeze the lard dry in a cloth;
after which melt it in a pipkin, and mix well with it three
tablespoonfuls of salad oil and enough palm oil to give it a colour.
When cold, or nearly so, scent it and put it into pots. A little white
wax may be added to make it thicker or stiffer.
475.—Pomatum
Take a pound of white mutton suet, well boiled in a quart of hot
water, and washed to free it from salt, &c.; when dried, melt it with
half a pound of fresh lard and a quarter of a pound of bees’ wax; pour
it into an earthen vessel, and stir till it is cold; then beat into it
fifteen drops of oil of cloves, or any essential oil whose scent is
preferred. If too hard, use less wax.
476.—Another Recipe
Take four ounces of lard, an ounce of castor oil, a quarter of an
ounce of spermaceti, an ounce and a half of salad oil, a quarter of an
ounce of white wax, a drachm and a half of tincture of lyt�, and
twenty drops of oil of roses, verbena, bergamot, or cloves. Melt the
wax, spermaceti, and lard with the oils in a glazed earthen pipkin,
and when nearly cold add the scent.
477.—Pomade for Hair that is Falling off
Take eight ounces of beef marrow, twenty-two drops of tincture of
cantharides, sixty grains of sugar of lead, an ounce of spirits of
wine, and twenty drops of oil of bergamot. Boil the marrow in the
bone, and mix the prescribed quantity, free of bone and fibre, with
the other ingredients, excepting the scent, which is to be added last
of all; if any other scent be preferred, the bergamot may be omitted.
478.—Pomade Divine
This is a capital pomade for rubbing into bruises, or to give relief
in any similar hurt:—Take a pound and a half of beef marrow, which
will be the produce of six or eight bones; clear it thoroughly from
bone and fibre, and put it in an earthen vessel of spring water;
change the water every night and morning for eight or ten days; then
steep the marrow in a pint of rose-water for twenty-four hours, and
drain it dry through a linen cloth. Take an ounce of flowers of
benzoin, cyprus-root, odoriferous thorn, and Florentine iris-root,
half an ounce of cinnamon, and a quarter of an ounce each of cloves
and nutmeg. Pound all these very fine, and mix them well with the
marrow; then put all into a pewter digester which holds three pints,
and let the top be closely fitted. Spread on linen a paste made of
flour and white of egg, and fix it over the top so that there can be
no evaporation. Suspend the digester by the handles in the middle of a
pot of boiling water, and keep it boiling, adding more boiling water
as often as necessary. Strain the pomade into small wide-mouthed
bottles, and cover it down when quite cold.
479.—Another Recipe
Take three-quarters of a pound of beef-marrow; clean it well from bone
and fibre, and wash it in water fresh from the spring, which must be
changed night and morning for ten days; then steep it in rose-water
for twenty-four hours, and drain it. Take half an ounce each of
storax, gum benjamin, and odoriferous cyprus-powder, two drachms of
cinnamon, and a drachm of cloves. Let these ingredients be all
powdered and well mixed with the marrow, and put them in a pewter pot
which holds about a pint and a half. Make a paste of white of egg and
flour, and lay it on a piece of linen, and place a second linen to
cover the pot very tight and keep in the steam. Place the pot in a
copper vessel of water, and keep it steady, so that the water may not
reach or touch the covering. As the water evaporates, add more,
boiling hot, and keep it boiling four hours without ceasing. Strain
the pomade into small jars or boules, and cork when quite cold. Take
care to touch it only with silver.
480.—Bandoline for the Hair
Mix two ounces of olive oil with one drachm each of spermaceti and oil
of bergamot; heat and strain; then beat in six drops of otto of roses.
If colour be desired, add half a drachm of annatto.
481.—Dentifrice
Scrape as much whiting to a fine powder as will fill a pint pot;
moisten two ounces of camphor with a few drops of brandy, rub it into
a powder, and mix with the whiting half an ounce of powdered myrrh.
Bottle it, and keep it well corked down, taking small quantities out
in a separate bottle for daily use.
482.—Another Recipe
Dissolve two ounces of borax in three pints of boiling water; before
quite cold, add a teaspoonful of tincture of myrrh and a tablespoonful
of spirits of camphor: bottle the mixture for use. One wineglassful of
the solution, with half a pint of tepid water, is sufficient for each
application. Applied daily, it preserves and beautifies the teeth,
extirpates all tartarous adhesion, produces a pearl-like whiteness,
arrests decay, and induces a healthy action in the gums.
483.—Another Recipe
No dentifrice in the world can equal that of powdered betel-nut if
properly prepared, but very few know how to do this: the nuts should
not be burnt, but sliced and roasted, like coffee, to a rich brown
colour, and then pulverised and passed through fine muslin; the grit
should then be repounded and strained through muslin, and this
operation continued until all the powder is finely sifted. The colour,
instead of being black, like charcoal, should be a fine rich
chocolate-colour. The dentifrice may then be used as it is, or
tincture of myrrh and camphor and eau de Cologne may be added to it.
484.—Rose Lip-salve
Take an ounce and a half of spermaceti, nine drachms of white wax,
twelve ounces of oil of sweet almonds, two ounces of alkanet-root, and
one drachm of otto of roses; digest the first four ingredients with
the heat of boiling water for four hours, then strain through flannel,
and add the otto of roses.
485.—Essence of Roses
Mix two drachms of otto of roses and a pint of rectified spirits of
wine.
486.—Essence of Lemon-peel
Steep six ounces of lemon-peel, cut very thin and without any particle
of the white skin, in eight ounces of spirits of wine well corked.
487.—Eau de Cologne
Put twelve drops each of oil of neroli, citron, bergamot, orange, and
rosemary, and a drachm of cardamom-seeds, into a pint of spirits of
wine, and let it stand for a week.
488.—Lavender-water
Mix two drachms of oil of lavender, half a drachm of oil of bergamot,
a drachm of essence of musk, thirteen ounces of spirits of wine, and
five ounces of water, and let it stand a week.
MISCELLANEOUS USEFUL RECIPES489.—To Unite Broken Glass or China
Rub the edges of the pieces that require mending with the white of an
egg, and then dust some slack lime upon them; hold them together till
they stick, and let them dry. This cement is not liable to be softened
by heat.
490.—Cement for Attaching Metal to Glass or Porcelain
Mix two ounces of a thick solution of glue with one ounce of
linseed-oil varnish or three-quarters of an ounce of Venice
turpentine. Boil together, agitating until the mixture becomes as
intimate as possible. The pieces cemented should be fastened together
for forty-eight or sixty hours.
491.—Japanese Cement
This is made by thoroughly mixing rice-flour with cold water, and then
gently boiling it; it is beautifully white, and dries almost
transparent.
492.—To Clean Silks, Satins, Coloured Woollen Dresses, &c.
Mix well together a quarter of a pound each of soft soap and honey,
the white of an egg, and a wineglassful of gin; the article should be
scoured thoroughly with rather a hard brush, rinsed in cold water,
left to drain, and ironed whilst damp.
493.—To Remove Stains from Mourning Dresses
Boil a handful of fig-leaves in two quarts of water until reduced to a
pint. Bombazines, crape, cloth, &c., need only be rubbed with a sponge
dipped in this liquor, and the stains will be instantly removed.
494.—To Remove Ironmould
Rub the spot with a little powdered oxalic acid, or salts of lemon,
and warm water. Let it remain a few minutes, and then well rinse it in
clear water.
495.—To Clean Kid Gloves
First see that your hands are clean; then put
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