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continue the boiling until the soap is sohd, when cooled skirn it off 

 the water and pour it into moulds. — 2. Soap ley made of barilha 

 or kelp (at 38 deg. Baume's hydrom., or so strong that a bottle 

 holding 8 oz. water will hold 11 of the ley) 21b., oil of almonds 

 4lb. ; rub them together in a mortar, and put the mixture in tin 

 moulds for some weeks. — 3. Ol. amygd. 7 pints, soap ley 13 pints, 

 common salt q. s ; produces lllb. 



Venice soap, Jlliite Castile soap, IVhite Marseilles soap, Alicant 

 soap, Sapo, S. Feiietits, Sapo alhus Hispaniciis, S. Aloensis. From 

 olive oil and barilha ; white : are aperient, diuretic, detergent, gr. 

 x--5ssj bis in die; also in calculous complaints, 3SS — ^j daily. 



Mottled Castille soap, Sapo Castilliensis marmoreus. From 

 olive oil and barilha, white, with veins made by adding a solution 

 of green vitriol to the soap; a detergent cosmetic. 



Starkey'^s soap, Sapo tartari. Rub warm subcarb. of potash 

 with oil of turpentine, adding a little water. 



Macquer's aciu soap, Sapo vitriolicus. Sapon. Ven. 4 oz., 

 ol. vitrioli q. s. ; add the acid by degrees to the soap rendered 

 soft by a little water, continually rubbing the mass in a mortar ; 

 detergent: used when alkalies would be prejudicial. 



Ceoton oil soap. Croton oil 5j, aq. potassse 5ss, rub to- 

 gether ; purgative, dose gr. ij or iij. 



VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



Soft soap, Green soap, Sapo viridis, Sapo mollis. From rape, 

 linseed, and other seed oils, and a ley of potash ; transparent, 

 yellowish, with small seed-like lumps of tallow diffused tnrough 

 It : used externally. 



Black soap, Sapo niaer. From fresh oil and a ley of potash, 

 without any tallow, dark coloured, ill smelling. 



2. Soft soap 7lb., train oil lib., water 7 pints ; boil together, 

 add common ivory black q. s. to colour it : used in ointments by 

 cattle doctors. 



PERFUMERY AND COSMETli S 



Shavina paste White wax, sperm, ceti, almond oil, of each 5 j ; 

 melt, and while warm beat up with 'rose water q. s., and add a 

 square of Windsor soap. 



Transjyarcnt snap. Dissolve almond soap in spirit ot wine, 

 filter, and distil off the spirit. — 2. Soft soap 1.51b., dry and dis- 

 solve in S. V. K. 2 gall., succ. lim. 18 oz. ; scent ad libitum. 



White wash balls. Sapon. alb. Gib., aniyli 3lb., aq. rosa* 8 oz., 

 aq. rorismar. 4 oz., camphora* 5iv, species odorifer. 2 oz.— 2. Sap. 



