Pharmaceutical formulas : being The chemist and druggist̕s book of useful recipes for the drug-trade collated chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemists̕ and druggists̕ diaries / by Peter MacEwan.

Date:
1911
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Pharmaceutical formulas : being The chemist and druggist̕s book of useful recipes for the drug-trade collated chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemists̕ and druggists̕ diaries / by Peter MacEwan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Next add Aq. rosae . • Bviij- Transfer to a bottle. shake, and add the following :— Aq. coloniensis . • 5j- Spt cether. nitrosi • 5j* : Spt. camphorae . • 5i- i Tr. benzoin, simp. . 5SS. ! Mix well. ' Cucumbep Ointment or Pomade Lard . . . . • Suet (veal) .... §vj. Melt together and add Tolu balsam . . gr. ix. Dissolved in Spirit ... a sufficiency Then add cucumber juice gxij. in two portions of §iv. and gviij., stirring occasionally for four hours after the first addition and for another hour after the second. Finally pour off the juice, melt the fat on a water- bath, and pot. When cold cover with a layer of rose-water. Note.—Some cucumber pomade is made with lanoline, and is use- less for making the cream. Cucumber Paste may be made according to formula No. III.—/,(?,, the product as it stands at the end of twelve hours—adding to each ounce tr. benzoin, simp. nxxx. Cucumber Juice.—Washed unpeeled cucumbers are grated and pressed. The juice is heated, skimmed, and boiled for five minutes, then cooled and filtered. Now add I part of rectified spirit to 2 parts of juice, let stand for twelve hours or more, and filter. Spirit of Cucumber is made by mixing three volumes of juice with one volume of rectified spirit, allowing the feculence to subside, and distilling three volumes from the clear liquor. Glycerine Cream I Almond oil Spermaceti White wax Borax Clycerine . Orange-flower water Oil of neroli Otto of rose Melt the first tliree ingredients together, and transfer to a hot mortar. Dissolve the borax in the glycerine and orange-flower water, and add a little at a time to the mortar contents, stirring well to produce a nice, uniform cream. Finally add the perfume. II Pulv. tragacanth. . . 5ij. 01. rosse geran. . . utxv. Spt. rectificat. . . . Jss. Glycerin! . . . . jiij. Aquce .... »vj. Dissolve the oil of rose-geranium in the rectified s]urit and add to the tragacanth contained in a mortar ; mix well, then add all at once the glycerine and water, previously mixed, and stir until uniform. • Siij- • BJ- . _^ss. • M'j- • .BJ- j . Uiv. I . niv.