Be Slipiers— ech nwgieba ite teal alkalies | 
the odour of some, and enhance it in others. Rapidly de 
composed by nitric and jsulpburis: acids, sometimes with 
hota npn arradtee agra 
ne Origani, Pitwendes, sc 
Cabinet specimens, Jeff. Coll. Nos. 480, , 481, 482, 482, 483, 
485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, » 493, 494, or 
496, 497, 498, 499. 
Huiles Antiques—used for anointing ‘the hair, are 
“made of different oils. The base of these, when is 
the oil from the nuts of the Guz Moringa, ed Oil 
of Ben, or Benne Oil. The oil of hazel, is a good substi- 
tute, being inodorous, and without. ‘colour, : nd no = 
to rancidity. It can be made to receive the odorous et 
sences with which these oils are charged.) a0) 
No, 402,—Oxza Express. L. D. -Olea fis, sive 
expressa. K. % 
ressed or fixed oils, obtained from animal matter, by 
pr se and from vegetable, by expression. ‘They arean- 
soluble in water, and, except castor oil, nearly so in alco- 
hol and ether; form soaps, with caustic alkalies—aided 
by heat, readily unite with oxide of lead, forming a mass 
of a solid and peculiar consistence, well known by the 
term plaster; unite with each other and with yolatile oils ; 
dissolve sulphur, forming a kind of balsamic compound. 
Extract and dissolve the narcotic and acrid principles of 
‘many vegetable and animal products. The French Codex 
recognises solutions of this kind, unknown in our Phar- 
macopeias, under the ioe Medicata, anise as ar 
Cicutz, Hyoscyami, » WVicotiane—these 
are made by digesting, by putitia heat 
~~ otic, with two parts olive oil. 
Examples of expressed vegetable an; are. | Oikekmense: 
Gingilly oil, rian the seeds of an African plant, the Sesa- 
mum orientale. Ol. lini, from flaxseed, called Ortigas, 
Oi. ng the beans ‘gm re lit, 
um. 
