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 provo cative of colds, hoarseness, and sore throat.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE

LIST OF MEDICATED SOAPS.

following soaps are used for many more purposes than

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.

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 seborrhoea, 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.

Apply to the irritated skin. This is suitable for alleviating the smarting from the bites of any kind of insects.

Upon retiring for the night, rub into the spots affected, and in the morning wash the surface with hot water.

Spread the ointment on a piece of old muslin, and keep the boil constantly

Apply with a camel's hair pencil every day. Copper oleate applied in the form of a plaster is also serviceable.

BURNS.

1. Immerse the burned part in cool water, and afterward paint it with oil of peppermint.

Saturate a piece of old muslin or a piece of absorbent cotton with the lotion, and use it on the painful surface.

Apply constantly to the skin with soft, old muslin, or cotton.

3. Solution of subacetate of lead,

4 ounces.

Apply to the skin with a piece of old muslin.

CARBUNCLE.

1. Take 2 ounces of bicarbonate of sodium. Dust it over the carbuncle, and allow the soda to remain on the skin until it becomes covered with a good many little openings. Then apply a poultice to the part, and follow that with a soothing ointment.