The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1872
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Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Japan for Tin-ware. 1. Common copal varnisli. 2. Dis- solve copal 2 oz., and camphor 1 dr., in oil of turpentine 8 oz. Brunsioich Blaclc. Melt 4 lb of asphaltum, and 2 lb of hot boiled linseed oil, and when sufficiently cool add a gallon of oil of turpentine. Varnish for Gun Barrels, after browning them. Shell- lac 1 oz., dragon’s blood £ oz., rectified spirit a quart. Dissolve and filter. Transfer Varnish. Alcohol 5 oz., pure Venice turpen- tine 4 oz., mastic 1 oz. Hair Varnish. Dissolve 1 part of clippings of pigs’ bristles, or of horsehair, in. 10 parts of drying linseed oil by heat. Fibrous materials (cotton, flax, silk, &e.), imbued with the varnish and dried, are used as a substitute for haircloth. Glass Varnish. This is a solution of soluble glass, and should be thus made :—Fuse together 15 parts of powdered quartz (or of fine sand), 10 parts of potash, and 1 of charcoal. Pulverize the mass, and expose it for some days to the air; treat, the whole with cold water, which removes the foreign salts, &c. Boil the residue in 5 parts of water until it dissolves. It is permanent in the air, and not dissolved by cold water. Used to protect wood, S^c., from fire. Vegetable Parchment. De la Bue’s Patent. Strong unsized paper is immersed for a few seconds in oil of vitriol, diluted with half its volume of water. It is then washed in pure water. It strongly resembles animal parchment, and is used for the same purposes. [The acid solution must be exactly of the strength indicated, and not warmer than the air around.] Vinegar. Vinegar may be made from wine or ale, by keep- ing it for seme weeks or months in a warm place, with access of air. In this country it is usually made from malt, or a mixture of malted and unmaltcd barley, which is mashed as for beer, and fermented with yeast. The fermented liquor is then placed in a warm room for many weeks in unclosed casks, and finished by transferring it into large vessels with false bottoms, on which are placed