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Read Ebook: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes sachet powders fumigating materials dentrifices cosmetics etc. etc. with a full account of the volatile oils balsams resins and other natural and a by Deite C Carl Brannt William T William Theodore Translator
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HISTORICAL NOTICE OF PERFUMERY.
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Consumption of perfume-substances by the early nations of the Orient 17
Perfume-substances as an offering to the gods and their use for embalming the dead; Arts of the toilet in ancient times 18
Perfume-substances used by the Hebrews; Olibanum and the mode of gaining it in ancient times, as described by Herodotus 19
Pliny's account of olibanum 20
Practice of anointing the entire body customary among the ancients; The holy oil prescribed by Moses; Origin of the sweet-scented ointment "myron" 21
Luxurious use of ointments in Athens, and the special ointments used for each part of the body; Introduction of ointments in Rome, and edict prohibiting the sale of foreign ointments; Plutarch on the extravagant use of ointments in Rome 22
Ancient books containing directions for preparing ointments; Directions for rose ointment, according to Dioscorides 23
Ancient process of distilling volatile oils; Dioscorides's directions for making animal fats suitable for the reception of perfumes; Consumption of perfume-substances by the ancient Romans; Condition of the ancient ointment-makers 24
Use of red and white paints, hair-dyes, and depilatories by the Romans 25
Peculiar substance for cleansing the teeth used by the Roman ladies; Perfumeries and cosmetics in the Middle Ages; Receipts for cosmetics in the writings of Arabian physicians, and of Guy de Chanlios 26
Giovanni Marinello's work on "Cosmetics for Ladies;" Introduction of the arts of the toilet into France, by Catherine de Medici and Margaret of Valois 27
Extravagant use of cosmetics in France from the commencement of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century 28
Importance of the perfumer's craft in France; Chief seats of the French perfumery industry 29
THE PERFUME-MATERIALS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PERFUMERY.
Derivation of the perfume-substances; Animal substances used; Occurrence of volatile oils in plants 31
Families of plants richest in oil; Central Europe the actual flower garden of the perfumer; Principal localities for the cultivation of plants 32
Volatile oils and their properties 33
Principal divisions of volatile oils 34
Constitution of terpenes; Concentrated volatile oils 35
Modes of gaining volatile oils; Expression 36
Clarification of the oil 37
Filter for clarifying the oil, illustrated and described 38
Distillation 39
Apparatus for determining the percentage of volatile oil a vegetable substance will yield, illustrated and described 40
Various stills for the distillation of volatile oils, illustrated and described 41
Distillation of volatile oils by means of hot air; Separation of the oil and water; Florentine flasks, illustrated and described 46
Separator-funnel, illustrated and described 47
Extraction 48
Various apparatuses for extraction, illustrated and described 49
Heyl's distilling apparatus 57
Maceration or infusion; Pomades; Purification of the fats used in the maceration process 58
Apparatuses for absorption, illustrated and described 61
Flowers for which the absorption process is employed; Storage of volatile oils 65
TESTING VOLATILE OILS.
Extensive adulteration of volatile oils; Testing volatile oils as to odor and taste 66
Recognition of an adulteration with fat oil 67
Detection of alcohol or spirit of wine; Dragendorff's test 68
Hager's tannin test 69
Detection of chloroform; Detection of benzine 71
Quantitative determination of adulterations with alcohol, chloroform, and benzine 72
Detection of adulterations with terpenes or terpene-like fluids 73
Detection of adulterations with volatile oils of a lower quality; Test with iodine 74
Hoppe's nitroprusside of copper test 75
Table showing the behavior of volatile oils free from oxygen towards nitroprusside of copper 76
Hager's alcohol and sulphuric acid test; Hager's guaiacum reaction 78
Division of the volatile oils with reference to the guaiacum reaction 79
H?bl's iodine method 80
A. Kremel's test by titration or saponification with alcoholic potash lye 81
Utilization of Maumen?'s test by F. R. Williams 82
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