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Prepared beef marrow, 4 ounces (avoirdupois); tincture Baldness. Croton oil, one of the last French 1285. New French Remedy for of cantharides, fluid ounce (Imperial); and remedies for baldness, is employed by simply cinnamon coarsely powdered, ounce; melt adding it to oil or pomade, and stirring or them together by the heat of a water-bath; agitating the two together until admixture stir until the spirit in the tincture has evapo- or solution be complete. The formula adopt- TOOTH POWDERS. ed by the eminent French physician who in- | Nos. 25, 31, and 14.) To ensure the perfect troduced this remedy, and who speaks, in the mixture of the ingredients, they should be most confident and enthusiastic way, of the stirred together until they form an apparently success attending its use, is-take of croton homogeneous powder, which should then be oil, 12 drops (minims); oil of almonds, 4 passed or rubbed through a fine gauze-sieve. Troy drachms; mix. A little is to be well Those which contain volatile or perishable rubbed on the scalp twice a day. Soft down, substances, or which, like charcoal, are affected we are assured, appears in three weeks. Mr. by contact with the air, should be put up in Cooley says: : "I have tried a number of ex- dumpy, wide-mouthed bottles, and kept close periments with croton oil, thus used, in partial ly corked." "Tooth powders are nearly all loss of hair and baldness, and am compelled compound powders. The only simple powder to bear testimony to its efficacy in several ap- in common use as a dentifrice is powdered parently hopeless cases, in which even can- charcoal. Powdered bicarbonate of soda, tharidine had failed. Soft hair, resembling cream of tartar, &c., are also employed, down, did begin to appear in from 3 to 4 though less frequently." The following list weeks, and continued to grow and increase in includes some of the best tooth-powders in strength for some time. It was, however, common use, as well as several advertised only in about one-third of these cases that this down subsequently increased in stiffness and quantity so as to well cover the part, and to deserve the name of hair, in the popular sense of the word." (See No. 1286.)

1286. Caution about Strong Hair Cosmetics. Although the stronger hair cosmetics are, as a rule, perfectly safe when applied according to the directions given, and the chief inconvenience that may arise, even from their too free or injudicious use, will be only temporary irritation, perhaps accompanied or followed by slight desquamation of the cuticle, or by a few unimportant pustules which will pass off in two or three days, yet there are cases in which their application would be unwise, and liable to produce more serious consequences. Thus, persons of a nervous temperament, with a highly irritable skin, and bad habit of body, persons liable to attacks of erysipelas, or to swollen glands behind the ears, or to swellings or tumors in the upper part of the neck behind, or to eruptive or other attacks of the scalp, and the like, should not have recourse to them. In other cases, and, indeed, in all cases, it is wise to use them very sparingly, or in a diluted state at first, and thus, as it were, feel our way, and be able to judge from experience the strength that can be employed, without inconvenience, to produce the desired effect. nostrums and named powders of the stores.

By omitting the honey and spirit, the formulæ given for tooth pastes furnish others for tooth powders; and vice versâ. Thus, the example given under each will increase the number of the other; and both will suggest to the reader other formulæ. 1289. Poudre Détersive Dentifrice.

Willow charcoal and white sugar in impalpable powder, each 8 ounces; calasaya bark in impalpable powder, 4 ounces; mix thoroughly in a mortar, sift through the finest bolting cloth, and perfume with a mixture of attar of mint, 2 drachms; attar of cinnamon, 1 ounce; and tincture of amber, 1/2 ounce.