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Areca Nut Tooth Paste

Take of recently burnt areca-nut charcoal, in fine powder (see No. 1302), 5 parts; raw or unburnt areca nuts, 1 part; honey, liquefied by a gentle heat, and allowed to cool, sufficient to make them into a stiff paste, adding gradually, for each ounce of the mixture, about 1 fluid drachm rectified spirit, holding in solu- 1302. Areca Nut Charcoal is prepared and kept by only a few houses; four-fifths of tion oil of cassia and oil of cloves, of each that sold by the druggists is spurious. The 10 or 12 drops. The next day beat up the genuine powder is heavier and harder than mass again, adding, if necessary, a few drops common charcoal, and has a peculiar ap- of proof spirit, or of eau de rose or orangepearance and feel, when pressed with the fin- flower water, to give it a proper consistence, gers, which is readily distinguishable. and at once put it into pots. A very excellent 1303. Pearl Dentifrice; Pearl Tooth preparation.

Powder. Take of white marble-dust, 4 1309. Vanilla Tooth Paste. Take cf ounces; cuttle-fish bone, 1 ounce; smalts the finest vanilla, 1 drachm; cloves, 1/2 drachm; (finest), 1 drachm; essence de petit-grain, 10 lump sugar and cuttle-fish bone, of each to 12 drops; mix. A favorite with ladies who have white, healthy teeth. Precipitated chalk or heavy carbonate of magnesia is commonly substituted for the marble-dust, but the quality of the product suffers in all but color. teemed for rapidly whitening the teeth and