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Glycerine Lotion No (Take of Price's glycerine) (II)

3. Take of Price's glycerine, 3 ounces; water, 17 ounces; mix. This is adapted for use in Price's glycerine. Both are excellent skin- 1150. Fragrant Glycerine Lotions. cosmetics, employed like Gowland's lotion Any of the foregoing glycerine lotions may be particularly for persons with a scrofulous or rendered fragrant and more agreeable by emscorbutic taint, or who are troubled with ploying rose water or elder-flower water, ineruptions, swellings, or indurations arising from it. It is also excellent as a hair-wash.

The product of the last formula may be advantageously used instead of hair-oil. stead of water, or by the addition of a little eau de Cologne, lavender water, or other scent, at will. The addition of a few drops of essence of musk or of ambergris, per pint, or of a couple of ounces of eau de rose or eau 1145. Lotion of Bichloride of Mercury. Take corrosive sublimate (in coarse de fleurs d'oranges, in lieu of an equal bulk of powder), 10 grains avoirdupois; distilled wa- water, imparts a delicate odor which is always ter. 1 Imperial pint; agitate them together highly esteemed. In like manner they may until solution be complete. The addition of be medicated or increased in efficacy, in 5 or 6 grains hydrochlorate of ammonia (pure various ways, for toilet and personal use. Thus, the addition of a little borax (2 or 3 to the most tender surfaces without producdrachms per pint ) , renders them more effect- ing injury, and as it does not dry up, virtually ive in chaps, excoriations , &c.; a little salt of maintains the parts in a constantly moist contartar, or of lemon juice, vinegar, or rectified dition, excluding the air and promoting the healing process. spirit, increases their power of allaying itching and morbid irritability in skin-diseases, as