4. (Magic paste.) From white marble dust 4 oz.; pumice stone (in impalpable powder), 3 oz.; rose pink, 1 oz.; honey, 1⁄2 lb.; otto of roses, 15 drops. Rapidly whitens the teeth, but it should not be used too freely, nor too frequently.
5. (P. Cod.) Prepared coral, 4 oz.; bitartrate of potassa, 2 oz.; cuttle-fish bone and cochineal, of each 1 oz.; alum, 1⁄2 dr.; Narbonne honey, 10 oz.; with essential oil, q. s. to aromatise the mixture.
6. (Pelletier’s Odontine.) This is stated to be a mixture of pulverised sepia-bone, butter of cacao, and honey, with essential oil.
7. (Rose paste.) Coral paste scented with roses, or the following:—Cuttle-fish bone, 1 oz.; prepared chalk, 2 oz.; cochineal, 1⁄2 dr.; honey of roses, 3 oz.; otto of roses, 6 drops.
8. (Soluble paste, Saline dentifrice.) From bitartrate of potassa or sulphate of potassa (in fine powder), 3 oz.; honey of roses, 2 oz.
9. (Spanish dentifrice, Castilian tooth cream.) From Castile soap (in fine powder) and cuttle-fish bone, of each 2 oz.; honey of roses, 5 oz. An excellent preparation. It is superior to all the other pastes for removing tartar and animalculæ from the teeth.
10. (Vanilla paste.) From red cinchona bark, 2 dr.; vanilla, 1 dr.; cloves, 1⁄2 dr. (the last two reduced to powder by trituration with); white sugar, 1 oz.; cuttle-fish bone and marble dust, of each 1⁄2 oz.; syrup of saffron, q. s.
11. (Violet paste.) From prepared chalk and cuttle-fish bone of each 3 oz.; powdered white sugar, 2 oz.; orris root 1 oz.; smalts, 1⁄4 oz.; syrup of violets, q. s. to mix.
12. (Winckler’s Roseate dentifrice.) From cuttle-fish bone, 1 part; conserve of roses (Ph. L.), 3 parts; white otto of roses, 2 drops to the oz.
13. Chalk, 8 oz.; myrrh and rhatany root, of each 2 oz.; orris root, 1 oz.; honey of roses, q. s. to mix. In foul and spongy gums.