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Cucumber Ointment

Take of fat without soap or some otherwise needless oil of sweet almonds, 7 fluid ounces; sper- addition. Another strong objection is the of sweet almonds, 7 fluid ounces; speraddition. Another strong objection is the maceti, 18 drachms; white wax, 5 drachms; tendency of fatty matter to become rancid glycerine, 1 fluid ounce; green cucumbers, 4 in contact with the skin. Mr. G. F. Schacht pounds. Cut the cucumbers in small pieces, proposes a substitute consisting of 1 fluid mash them in a wedgwood mortar, let them ounce pure glycerine and 70 grains starch macerate in their own liquor for 12 hours, powder. These are mixed while cold, and express and strain; melt the almond oil, then gradually heated to about 240° Fahr., spermaceti, and wax together, by means constantly stirring; he gives this preparation of a water-bath; add to it the strained the name of plasma. This constitutes a basis liquor, stirring constantly so as to incorporate whose consistence is good, and does not vary the whole together. Set aside in a cool place with changes of temperature; it is soluble in (an ice-chest preferred) till it becomes hard, water, and may consequently be removed then beat with a wooden spoon, so as to sepfrom tender surfaces with the greatest ease; arate the watery portion of the cucumbers it dissolves and thoroughly mingles with all from the ointment; pour off the liquor thus materials that are soluble in water, and thereobtained, and mix the glycerine with the fore presents such remedies in the condition ointment without the aid of heat, by workmost favorable for absorption; and, lastly, it ing it with the hands until it becomes thor- is not liable to rancidity. With plasma suboughly incorporated. Put up in 4ounce stituted for fat, may be produced preparations jars, cover with a layer of rose-water, and corresponding to most of the cerates and ointset aside in a cool place.