Sweet almonds, 4 oz. 
Elder-flower water, 1 pint. 
Alcohol (60 o.p.), 8 oz. 
Oil of elder flowers, prepared by maceration, 1/2 oz. 
Wax, sperm, soap, each, 1/2 oz.

MILK OF DANDELION.

Sweet almonds, 4 oz. 
Rose-water, 1 pint. 
Expressed juice of dandelion root, 1 oz. 
Esprit tubereuse, 8 oz. 
Green oil, wax, }
Curd soap, } each 1/2 oz.

Let the juice of the dandelion be perfectly fresh pressed; as it is in itself an emulsion, it may be put into the mortar after the almonds are broken up, and stirred with the water and spirit in the usual manner.

MILK OF CUCUMBER.

Sweet almonds, 4 oz. 
Expressed juice of cucumbers, 1 pint. 
Spirit (60 o.p.), 8 oz. 
Essence of cucumbers, 1/4 pint. 
Green oil, wax, }
Curd soap, } each 1/2 oz.

Raise the juice of the cucumbers to the boiling point for half a minute, cool it as quickly as possible, then strain through fine muslin; proceed to manipulate in the usual manner.

ESSENCE OF CUCUMBERS.

Break up in a mortar 28 lbs. of good fresh cucumbers; with the pulp produced mix 2 pints rectified spirit (sp. gr. .837), and allow the mixture to stand for a day and night; then distil the whole, and draw off a pint and a half.  The distillation may be continued so as to obtain another pint fit for ulterior purposes.

CREME DE PISTACHE. (Milk of Pistachio Nuts.)

Pistachio nuts, 3 oz. 
Orange-flower water, 3-1/4 pints. 
Esprit neroli, 3/4 pint. 
Palm soap, }
Green oil, wax, } each, 1 oz. 
Spermaceti, }

LAIT VIRGINAL.

Rose-water, 1 quart. 
Tincture benzoin, 1/2 oz.

Add the water very slowly to the tincture; by so doing an opalescent milky fluid is produced, which will retain its consistency for many years; by reversing this operation, pouring the tincture into the water, a cloudy precipitate of the resinous matter ensues, which does not again become readily suspended in the water.

EXTRACT OF ELDER FLOWERS.

Elder-flower water, 1 quart. 
Tincture benzoin, 1 oz.

Manipulate as for virgin’s milk.

Similar compounds may, of course, be made with orange-flower and other waters.

SECTION XI.

COLD CREAM.

GALEN, the celebrated physician of Pergamos, in Asia, but who distinguished himself at Athens, Alexandria, and Rome, about 1700 years ago, was the inventor of that peculiar unguent, a mixture of grease and water, which is now distinguished as cold cream in perfumery, and as Ceratum Galeni in Pharmacy.