Beard-cultivating Pomade, Royer’s (Royer & Co., Berlin). An ointment of 1 part pulv. cinchon. rub., and 11⁄2 parts of a hair pomade containing wax. (Hager.)
Beard-cultivating Tincture (Bergmann, Rochlitz). A spirituous extract of some
agreeable bark, mixed with a little oil of rosemary and thyme. (Wittstein.)
Beard-cultivating Tincture, Royer’s (Royer, Berlin). 10 grammes kitchen salt, 150 grammes French brandy, fictitious and fuselly, and 2 grammes tincture of mace. (Schädler.)
Beard Tincture, American (Teinture americaine pour la barbe), for dyeing the beard black. Three fluids. No. 1, nitrate of silver solution; No. 2, tincture of galls; No. 3, sodium sulphide solution.
BEARD′ED. Syn. Barba′tus, L.; Barbu, Fr.; Bartig, Ger. In anatomy, botany, and zoology, having a beard, or a beard-like appendage; prickly, barbed, jagged; awned.
BEA′VER, (bē′-) Syn. Cas′tor, L.; Castor, Bièvre, Fr.; Biber, Ger. The fi′ber cas′tor (Linn.), an animal belonging to the rodentia of Cuvier, and remarkable for the great ingenuity which it exercises in the construction of its lodges or habitations. Hab. Europe and America. Those of the former are burrowers; those of the latter, builders. The fur has long been employed in the manufacture of the best quality of hats (BEAVER HATS). The fat was officinal in the Ph. L. 1618. Castor (CASTO′′REUM) is obtained from this animal.
BE′BEERINE (bēbe′-ĕr-in‡). C19H21NO3. [Eng., Fr.] Syn. Bi′birine (bē′-bĕr-ĭn); Bebeeri′na, Bibiri′na, &c., L. A peculiar alkaloid, discovered by Dr Rodie, in the bark and seeds of the beeberu, bibiri, or green-heart tree (nectan′dra Rodiæ′i, Schomb.), of British Guiana; and since minutely examined by Maclagan and Tilley, and by Von Planta.
Prep. 1. That of commerce, which generally contains some sipirine (—? altered bebeerine), and a little lime, is generally first obtained in the form of sulphate, by a process analogous to that employed in the preparation of sulphate of quinine; and from this salt it is precipitated by the addition of ammonia or an alkali.
2. (Pure.) By precipitating the sulphate with ammonia, washing the precipitate with very cold water, and triturating it, whilst still moist, with fresh hydrated oxide of lead; next drying the mixture by a gentle heat, exhausting the residuum with alcohol, distilling off the alcohol, and treating the last residuum with ether; the ethereal solution on evaporation leaves pure bebeerine, under the form of a white or yellowish-white, resinous-looking substance, which is pure white when powdered.