GLYCERINE LOTION.—­For softening the skin of the face and hands, especially during the commencement of cold weather, and also for allaying the irritation caused by the razor:  Triturate, four and a half grains of cochineal with one and a half fluid ounces of boiling water, adding gradually; then add two and a half fluid ounces of alcohol.  Also make an emulsion of eight drops of ottar of roses with thirty grains of gum arabic and eight fluid ounces of water; then add three fluid ounces of glycerine, and ten fluid drachms of quince mucilage.  Mix the two liquids.

FLESHWORMS.—­These specks, when they exist in any number, are a cause of much unsightliness.  They are minute corks, if we may use the term, of coagulated lymp, which close the orifices of some of the pores or exhalent vessels of the skin.  On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.  They are vulgarly called “flesh worms,” many persons fancying them to be living creatures.  These may be got rid of and prevented from returning, by washing with tepid water, by proper friction with a towel, and by the application of a little cold cream.  The longer these little piles are permitted to remain in the skin the more firmly they become fixed; and after a time, when they lose their moisture they are converted into long bony spines as dense as bristles, and having much of that character.  They are known by the name of spotted achne.  With regard to local treatment, the following lotions are calculated to be serviceable:  1.  Distilled rose water, 1 pint; sulphate of zinc, 20 to 60 grains.  Mix. 2.  Sulphate of copper, 20 grains; rosewater, 4 ounces; water, 12 ounces.  Mix. 3.  Oil of sweet almonds, 1 ounce; fluid potash, 1 drachm.  Shake well together and then add rose-water, 1 ounce; pure water, 6 ounces.  Mix.  The mode of using these remedies is to rub the pimples for some minutes with a rough towel, and then dab them with the lotion. 4.  Wash the face twice a day with warm water, and rub dry with a coarse towel.  Then with a soft towel rub in a lotion made of two ounces of white brandy, one ounce of cologne, and one-half ounce of liquor potassa.

HOW TO REMOVE FRECKLES.—­Freckles; so persistently regular in their annual return, have annoyed the fair sex from time immemorial, and various means have been devised to eradicate them, although thus far with no decidedly satisfactory results.  The innumerable remedies in use for the removal of these vexatious intruders, are either simple and harmless washes, such as parsley or horseradish water, solutions of borax, etc., or injurious nostrums, consisting principally of lead and mercury salts.