BRUSTWARZENBALSAM, RIGAER—RIGA’S NIPPLE BALSAM. A mixture of the yolk of one egg with 10 to 12 grammes balsam of Peru.
BRY′ONIN (-nĭn). A peculiar bitter principle extracted from the root of white bryony (bryonia dioica, Jacq.). It is obtained from the dry extract of the expressed juice, by solution in alcohol, filtration, and cautious evaporation.
Prop., &c. A yellowish-white mass. It is a drastic purgative; and, in large doses, poisonous. It enters into the composition of several quack medicines.
BUBBLE-AND-SQUEAK. In cookery, a species of olla podrida variously prepared, as the materials and fancy of the maker dictate.
Prep. (Rundell.) Take slices of cold meat, fry them quickly until brown, and put them into a dish to keep them hot. Then clean the pan from the fat; put in it greens and carrots (previously boiled and chopped small); add a
little butter, pepper, and salt; make them very hot, and put them round the beef with a little gravy. Cold boiled pork is a better material for bubble-and-squeak than beef. In either case the slices should be very thin and lightly fried.
BUB′BLE FEVER‡. See Pemphigus.
BU′CHU (-kū). The plant dios′ma crena′ta (which see).
BUCK′BEAN or BOG′BEAN. The menyanthes trifoliata. See Infusions.
BUCKINGHAM’S DYE for the whiskers; manufactured by R. E. Hall & Co., Nashua, N.H. This whisker dye is an ammoniacal solution of nitrate of silver, and consists of 1⁄2 gramme nitrate of silver, 21⁄2 grammes solution of ammonia, and 40 grammes distilled water. (Dr Schacht).