ith 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.

The modern formula for cold cream is, however, quite a different thing
to that given in the works of Galen in point of odor and quality,
although substantially the same--grease and water. In perfumery there
are several kinds of cold cream, distinguished by their odor, such as
that of camphor, almond, violet, roses, &c. Cold cream, as made by
English perfumers, bea