Pharmaceutical formulas : being The chemist and druggist's book of useful recipes for the drug-trade selected chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemist and druggist diaries / by Peter MacEwan.

  • MacEwan, Peter, 1856-1917.
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

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

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    a refined appearance. The following are some of the principal materials and preparations required in addition to implements : Finger-nail Polishes or Manicure Powder i Putty powder . . . gviij. Carmine. . . . Bj. Otto of rose . . . nivj. Oil of neroli . . . itiv. Triturate well together. II Oleate of tin (in powder). §ij. Powdered pumice . . giss. Oil of lavender . . ntv. Mix well by trituration, and sift three times through a No. 120 sieve. The powder polishes are preferred, and sodium perborate 5ss. to 5j. per ounce is a useful addition. They should be put up in bottles with a sprinkler stopper, so as to enable the powder to be placed easily on the chamois polisher. The first step in beautifying the nails is to lather well in warm water with a good pure soap. When dry, and while soft, trim the points with scissors and smooth with pumice or the file. Push the skin all round the edges to show the shape of the nails and the half-moon at the base. Ragged bits of skin should be removed, then the polishing-powder used, rubbing equally all over. Finally a varnish may be applied, but it generally suffices to touch the nails with a little toilet lanoline or similar cream. III Cinnabar . . jj. (or kieselguhr 3-j.) Fine emery powder . §j. Essential oil of almonds . inij. Triturate until uniformly mixed, and sift two or three times. IV Putty powder . . . §iv. Liquid cochineal . • 5J- Bay rum glycerine lotion a suffi- ciency to make a smooth and soft paste. Nail-varnish Hard paraffin . Otto of rose Chloroform to. Dissolve. 5J- nmj 5T White-spot Remover Myrrh . . . . jj. Black pitch . . . §j. Melt together and make into a plaster. Bits of the ‘white-spot remover’ are to be applied at night, covered with a bandage, and removed in the morning, the adhering plaster being washed off with spirit of turpentine perfumed well with lavender.