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remedially about the person. This scent has a decidedly 
stimulating sexual effect. Hempel tells of a robust man 
recovering virile powers (lost for four previous years through 
a severe chill) by grinding up Musk for his employer. The 
periume of the Civet Cat (Viverra civetta) has a like effect. In 
aged persons attacked with inflammation of the lungs, leading 
to rapid exhaustion of the strength, with threatened heart 
failure, Musk is of splendid service, though of itself a costly 
medicament. The old physicians used from nine to twelve 
grains of genuine Musk made up in the form of a mixture, 
with syrup, and mucilage of gum, giving frequent doses accord- 
ing to the urgency of the case, and obtaining therefrom very 
excellent results. 
The most famous manufactory of Perfume in the world is a 
little old-fashioned building in Warwick Street, London,—the 
Royal Perfumery of Messrs. Bayley & Co.,” who invented the 
famous Ess Bouquet, as used by George the Fourth at a State 
Ball; their flower farm is at Byfleet. Deer fat, or purified 
beef suet, is melted by steam, then the picked flowers are 
immersed therein for forty-eight hours; the fat is strained off 
from these, and fresh flowers are substituted in it, repeating the 
process often enough for the fat to have absorbed sufficient 
“otto”; alcohol is next added, and the fat is cut up into fine 
flakes; the perfumed volatile liquid is afterwards distilled off. 
The best Roses which can be had come from Roumelia, and 
Bulgaria. Ambergris is the earliest scent which was known. 
The King’s favourite perfume is Ess Bouquet, which is actually 
an essence of many flowers wonderfully blended together. As 
to scents, the majority of them can be now made artificially 
from coal tar; the perfume, and even the colouring matter of 
the flowers, which are poetically supposed to form the basis 
of the various scents, are now easily reproduced chemically irom 
this coal tar, and its aniline dyes. In fact :— 
“ The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la ! 
Have nothing to do with the case.” 
Such sweet scents as Acacia, Attar of Roses, Lavender, New- 
mown Hay, Wood-violet, Aroma of Apple and Pear, also many 
other perfumes, are readily produced; also for flavouring uses 
Vanilline crystals are to be made from coal tar, instead of being 
got from the costly Vanilla bean, the chemical constituents of 
_ both being identically the same. 
