Melt the fats in a water-bath, and introduce the fresh strawberries. The temperature must be kept very low, only high enough to keep the mass liquid, otherwise the strawberry aroma will be lost. After digestion (that is, soaking) for several hours, strain and, when nearly cool, add the essential oils.

We extract the three following recipes for almond-meal from the Pharmaceutical Era of May, 1890:

Beat to a fine powder, and keep from the air. Use, with a little water, to cleanse, whiten, and soften the hands, instead of soap.

The following are five different ways of making Florida water, which, as well as the succeeding four making Brilliantine, are taken from the Pharmaceutical Era of May, 1890:

Macerate fifteen days, and filter through filtering-paper.

Mix, and allow to stand several days before filtering and bottling.

Melt together, adding the perfume when nearly cold.

We are pleased to see at last a protest against the severity of what is called "a close shave." In making a close shave, the barber keeps his fingers moist at the finishing touches of the operation, and, with the forefinger and the middle finger spread slightly apart, presses the skin both downward and outward, with the effect of actually making the lower part of the hair-shaft unduly project beyond its follicle. It is not the hair alone that is moved, but the little trumpet-mouthed follicle in which it grows is pressed downward over the hair, so as to cause it to protrude. The hair is thus, as it were, squeezed out of its follicle. Some one, it seems, as narrated in the Medical Classics, has had the curiosity to examine through the microscope the skin of a face after it had been closely shaven. He describes the cost at which one thus gets a very smooth face, as the removal of a thin layer of the cuticle, the laceration of the tiny blood-vessels at the orifice of the follicles, the exposure of the tips of the nerves there, and the rendering of the skin, as it appears under the microscope, like a piece of raw beef,-tender, unhealthy, and to so great a degree susceptible as to be provocative of colds, hoarseness, and sore throat.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

LIST OF MEDICATED SOAPS.

HE following soaps are used for many more purposes than

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those herein mentioned in connection with them. It would be useless to mention, for the information of the general reader, such applications of them as relate to diseases which invariably require the advice of a physician. Therefore, only such applications are included as come within the possibilities of popular

treatment :

ALUM SOAP, used in greasy seborrhoea, pustular eczema, etc.

AMBER SOAP, used for enlarged glands, moles, warts, etc.

ARNICA SOAP, used for abrasions, wounds, bruises, boils, carbuncles, sore nipples, etc.

BALSAM SOAP, used in indolent ulcers, etc.

BORO-GLYCERIDE SOAP, used for cleansing wounds and ulcers, and in allaying inflammation, etc.

CAMPHOR SOAP, frequently used for pruritus, accompanying eczema, chilblains,

etc.

CARBOLIC-ACID SOAP, used in chronic eczema, etc.

CHAMOMILE SOAP, used for chafed surfaces, for seborrhoea, for excessive secretion
of the skin, and foul-smelling sores.

CHAMOMILE AND SULPHUR SOAP, used in dry seborrhea, loss of hair, etc.
ELDER-FLOWER SOAP, used for sunburn, etc.

ERGOT SOAP, used in eczema, etc.

EUCALYPTOL SOAP, used for foul-smelling wounds and ulcers, and also for fetid perspiration.

GLYCERIN SOAP, used for roughness of the skin, chapping, etc.

IODINE SOAP, used in scrofulous skin affections, etc.

IODIDE OF SULPHUR SOAP, used for chronic ulcers, yellowish-brown or blackish patches on the skin, freckles, etc.

KINO SOAP, used for eczema, ulcers, etc.

LEAD SOAP, used for boils, carbuncles, abrasions of the skin, bed-sores, etc. NAPHTHOL-SULPHUR SOAP, used for itch, lousiness, bites of insects, eczema, seborrhoea, and fetid perspiration.

NAPHTHOL SOAP, used for fetid perspiration, and in eczema, and for the bites of insects.

SALICYLIC-ACID SOAP, used in thickening of the skin on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, for pustular eczema, fetid perspiration, foul wounds or sores, and for toilet purposes.

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SUBLIMATE SOAP, used in animal parasitic diseases, for freckles, pigmentary spots on the skin, and effective in relieving itching of the skin.

SULPHUR SOAP, used in rosacea, etc.

TANNIN SOAP, used for ulcers, for excessive perspiration, oily seborrhea, etc. TANNIN-BALSAM SOAP, used for wounds, ulcers, chilblains, etc.

TAR SOAP, used in chronic eczema, etc.

THYMOL SOAP, used for ulcers, wounds, and in pustular eczema, etc.

TURPENTINE SOAP. This soap is sometimes known under the name of Starkey's Soap. It is used for chilblains, etc.

WINTERGREEN SOAP, used in eczema, etc.

WITCH-HAZEL SOAP, used in eczema, for fetid perspiration, and in loss of hair.