Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management / by Erasmus Wilson.

Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Healthy skin : a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Ashes of the hedgehog, hedgehog skin, mouse, goat's hair, horses' teeth, bees, wasps. Spanish flies; house flies distilled with honey in milk; honey; bee glue; red coral. Substances derived ft'om the vegetable Mngdom. Eesins:—Aloes, amber, benzoin, euphorbium, frankin- cense, ladanum, mastich, myrrh, pine resin, balsam of Peru, cedar tar, common tar, turpentine. Oils :—Of bays, chamomile, dill, paper, southernwood, spikenard. Roots:—Cyclamen, hellebore, lily (white), onion, orrice, reed, squill, sweettiag, verbascum. Seeds :—Almonds (bitter), beans (flour), colocynth, fennel (wild), mustard, nasturtium, nutmeg (bui-nt), rockett, stavesacre. Other parts of plants :—Agallochum, althea, asarabacca, box leaves, chamomile flowers, cinchona (bark), cresses, cyperus, dock, fcenugreck, fig leaves, house leek, lavender (stajchas), maiden-hair, malva, melilotus, myrtle leaves, parietaria, pomegranate bark and flowers, poplar buds, reeds bark and leaves burnt, leaves of the red rose, rosemary, rue, salvia, St. John's wort, thapsia, verbascum, wormwood. The only member of the mineral kingdom, that I have found alluded to, is sulphur. And among products not ad- missible into the above lists, are hone^'-water and burnt linen cloth. In reviewing the above catalogue of more than ninety substances, the greater part will be found to be stimulants, but some are recommended on a different principle; for example, the fats, which were intended to be nourishers of the hair. In selecting the kind of fat, that of the bear was pro- bably chosen on account of the haii'iness of the animal; that of the hedgehog for the strength of its spiny covering; while T