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Diamond Tooth Cement
Take of anhydrous phosphoric acid in fine powder, 12 grains; pure caustic lime, fresh burnt, and in fine powder, 13 grains; mix them rapidly, by trituration, in a porcelain or little skill and care, particularly if it be a hollow one with a clearly defined central cavity. When the reverse is the case, it is generally necessary that the operator should be a second party. A hollow tooth with a central and nearly circular hole in it may, in general, wedgwood-ware mortar, and apply the pow- be effectively filled with a plug of dry soft der, in the dry state, as quickly as possible, wood, or of bone or ivory. If the hole be as it soon becomes moist. The powder, after not round, it may be made so. Such stopbeing well pressed in the crack or cavity of ping will often last for years. the tooth, is smoothed off with the finger 5883. Το Remove Tattoo Marks from moistened with a drop of water. It soon ac- the Skin. Inquiry is frequently made for quires great hardness, is white, very durable, methods for the successful removal of tattoo and does not become discolored by age. marks in the skin. While these are generally asserted to be indelible, if produced by the seous flavor is to put a table-spoonful of insertion of some carbonaceous matter, a cor- strained orange-juice in a wine-glass, pour respondent of the Chemical News says that the castor oil into the centre of the juice, and the marks disappeared by being first well then squeeze a few drops of lemon-juice upon rubbed with a salve of pure acetic acid and the top of the oil, and rub some of the juice lard, then with a solution of potash, and on the edge of the glass. finally with hydrochloric acid. 5889. French Method of Administering Castor Oil to Children. Pour the oil into a pan over a moderate fire; break an egg into it, and stir up; when it is done, add a little salt or sugar, or some currant jelly.
The sick child will eat it agreeably, and never discover the disguise. 5890. To Destroy the Taste of Castor Oil. A good way is to beat the caster oil with the white of an egg until both are