Toothache Collodion.-This is the plain collodion, holding in solution one grain of sulphate of morphia to every ounce of liquid. It is almost a specific for the toothache, which results from an exposed nerve.

Blistering Collodion. The etherial extract of cantharides, dissolved in collodion, forms a most convenient, active, and clearly blistering liquid. If the blister is opened at the side, the film of collodion remains unbroken; and, by thus protecting the sore, obviates the necessity of dressing it with oint

ment.

CHAPTER LX.

MISCELLANEOUS PREPARATIONS.

THERE are many other preparations connected with the commerce of perfumery, though not properly belonging to the art. Among them are the following:

Savon à detacher (for removing grease-spots). -Mix together some very dry white soap with alcohol, and when the solution is complete, rub up with it the yellows of six eggs, gradually adding afterwards a little spirits of turpentine. When the paste is well kneaded, incorporate a quantum sufficit of fuller's earth to give it consistence.

To make use of this composition, moisten with warm water, if possible, the stained spot, and rub the savonnette over it. With a fine brush or sponge entirely extinguish the lather by rubbing. It answers for all spots except those of ink and rust.

Eau à detacher (for the removal of grease-spots). Essence of turpentine, pure

Alcohol 40° B.

Sulphuric ether

8 oz.

1 oz.

1 oz.

This

Mix and shake together, and to mask the odor of turpentine add a little essence of lemon. water is applied with a sponge to the stain, which is then rubbed lightly with a dry sponge until the spot is removed. If the stain is old, the place must first be heated.

Eau de javelle (rectified).—This water is used both as a disinfectant, and for the removal of fruit, rust, and ink stains. It is prepared by saturating an aqueous solution of potash with chlorine gas. A few drops, washing the linen afterwards with soap, will bleach it perfectly.

This paste is

Powdered sugar

Make into a semi-liquid paste.

used with a stamp.

The mark is dried, then

washed in solution of caustic potash and dried anew; then again washed in water. The name now stands out boldly.

The black juice of the nut and milky juice of the trunk of the anacardium occidentale produce an almost indelible stain upon linen, which renders them applicable as marking-fluid.

Mode of bleaching sponge.-Soak the sponge in cold water, which must be changed every two or three hours, and express each time all liquid from the sponge. Continue this operation for five or six days; the sponge will then be soft, and in a proper condition for being bleached. If, on the contrary, warm water has been used, the sponge will be hard. Should the sponge contain any white pearly matter, plunge it into a solution of one part muriatic acid to 20 parts of water. These granules, being principally carbonate of lime, are decomposed, the carbonic acid escaping by effervescence and the lime forming a soluble salt with the muriatic acid, which must be thoroughly washed away in repeated waters.

The sponge, squeezed out, is now put in a bath of sulphurous acid of specific gravity 1.024. After a week's saturation, and daily removal and expression during the interval, it is soaked again in pure fresh water for twenty-four hours, then perfumed, and dried in the air.

Besides the articles already mentioned, there are others which, though not manufactured by the perfumer, are generally kept on hand for the accommodation of customers: for instance, wigs, curls, hair-pins, razors and strops, sponges, glass flagons of every variety, size, and color, assorted hair,

cloth, and teeth brushes, and toilet furniture generally.

A toilet can be arranged and furnished according to taste, where there is more regard to convenience and comfort than expense of outlay. The necessaries, however, for a dressing-table and washstand, are two cakes of fine soap, a box of dentifrice, a pot of pomade for the hair, and a box of lip salve. These are to be found at most of the perfumers, in neatly fitted cases, arranged so as to contain all the requisites from a perfumer's shop. They are, generally, of prices corresponding with the elegance of their preparation.