Gum-tragacanth 5½ drachms, swelled up in rose water 10½ ozs.
Bring the pulverized gum-tragacanth into a suitable earthenware or enamelled vessel, pour the rose water over it, and let it stand in a right warm place until by the swelling of the gum a thick mucilage is formed.
The mode of preparation is the same as for solid paints, except that in order to give the rouge more consistency, less water and gum-tragacanth mucilage are to be used.
Take of Wood of Aloes five drams, Ambergris three drams, Musk one dram, with mussilage of Gum Tragacanth made in Rose Water, make it into troches according to art.
Tragacanth Tragacanth is used to allay tickling cough, and lubricate abraded parts.
The above mixture in each case is to be thickened with 2 ounces of gum tragacanth dissolved in 2 pints of rose-water.
The best way to accomplish this is to pack the dry shells with cotton wool, and then fasten the opercula to the wool by means of a little gum tragacanth or acetic glue.
In answer to this we may say that gum tragacanth is certainly as good as any.
Gum arabic and gum tragacanth have the disadvantage that they are more liable to attract mites and are more brittle, so that they do not hold specimens as well as some of the liquid glues that are on the market.
In such cases a little spirits of camphor mixed with the gum tragacanth is best.
Further examination indicated the presence of salicylic acid, a gummy material, having the properties of tragacanth and glycerin.
To the water contained in a pint bottle add the tragacanth, agitate briskly for a few minutes, and again at short intervals, until the tragacanth is perfectly diffused, and has finally formed a mucilage.
A mixture of glycerin and tragacanth is often used, and produces very similar results to those I have obtained from the glycerin mass.
Mix glycerin to the required consistence with compound tragacanth powder.
Glycerin, as well as a mixture of glycerin andtragacanth made into a paste of proper consistence, are also employed as pill-excipients.
One part oftragacanth gives more viscosity to water than twenty-five parts of gum Arabic--Squire.
Under the name of Caramania gum it is mixed with inferior kinds of gum tragacanthbefore exportation.
Gum tragacanthis used in calico-printing as a thickener of colours and mordants; in medicine as a demulcent and vehicle for insoluble powders, and as an excipient in pills; and for setting and mending beetles and other insect specimens.
Take of the first paste 1/2 pint, gum tragacanth 1 gill, water 1 pint; mix all together.
The leather is washed down with tragacanth and the previously impressed design picked out with white of egg and quickly tooled with tools medium to hot.
About 10 grammes of tragacanth to 1/4 litre water are soaked in a vessel, and after swelling it is well stirred.
Of these, gumtragacanth is still largely produced, and is an important article of commerce.
This arrival increased the excitement among the men, who piled tamarisk and the gumtragacanth bush on the fires most recklessly, the wild, hooded tufangchis and their long guns being picturesque in the firelight.
There also for the first time I found the Astragalus verus, the gum tragacanth of commerce.
This solution is prepared by melting gum tragacanth in boiling water, (if wanted for immediate use,) having first picked the gum quite clean.
Pick the gum tragacanth clean, and put it into a wide-mouthed glass or white-ware vessel, that will hold a quart.
The gum tragacanth will then be much swelled, and nearly to the top of the vessel.
Rub the tragacanth with the glycerin, and add the water gradually.
Dissolve the tragacanth and sugar in water, and strain.
Planche, a mixture of pulverised tragacanth and gum Arabic forms, with water, a thinner mucilage than the same quantity of either of these gums alone.
Powdered tragacanth is often adulterated with flour of starch, and not unfrequently with the commoner varieties of gum Arabic.
For a small quantity, take an ounce of the best gum tragacanth and a grain of corrosive sublimate.
Next cut out a narrow band of the same, and cement it on with gum tragacanth paste, (made as above), and let it remain till you open the jar for use.
Next, put on an outside cover of bladder or thick white paper secured with a band of the same, coated with tragacanth paste.
The tragacanth is broken in small pieces, and put into a wide-mouthed bottle; the other ingredients are added and the bottle frequently shaken.
Probably a simple tragacanth jelly, which can be made cheaply, will produce the same effects as those of the proprietary preparation.
Last night a man (for Hadji was hors de combat) brought in some live embers, and heaped some gum tragacanth thorns and animal fuel upon them; there was no chimney, and the hole in the roof was stopped by a clod.
Knead the whole into a Paste with Whites of Eggs, and a quarter of a pound of Gum Tragacanth dissolved in Rose-water, and then form it into Wash-balls according to the usual method.
Then mix it with a thin Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth to a proper consistence, and put it into an earthen dish, stirring into it about a pint more of Water.
When dry, gum it with a very thin Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth made with some sweet-scented Water.
Afterwards kneading the mass with a sufficient quantity of Starch, and adding to it the Whites of Eggs, with Gum Tragacanth dissolved in some odoriferous Water, form the Paste into Wash-balls of what size you please.
Take Marechal Powder, and make it into a paste with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth and Arabic, prepared with All-flower-water (the receipt for which is contained in this book.
Then mix the Ambergrise, with a little Gum Tragacanth liquefied in sweet-scented Water.
An inferior quality is thetragacanth of Morea, which generally comes from Greece via Trieste.
I must mention further an effect, which earth colors exert on tragacanth size, viz.
Tragacanth is one of these short-viscous plant mucilages which swell in cold water but do not give a perfectly homogeneous solution.
For a long while, tragacanth was known as a good material for marbling size and, for that reason, it is used to-day in a good many of our book-binderies for this purpose.
Take 4/6 of an ounce of gum tragacanth let it swell in 1 pint of water and dissolve fully by boiling.
For tragacanth size, colors of great consistency, mostly fine earth colors are the best.
These small granules prohibit, within the first two or three days of a fresh tragacanth size, the drawing of edges, as they make the colors thrown on appear rugged, and in drawing injure the fine hair lines.
The paste consists of starch, dextrin, tragacanth and sugar with sufficient water to form a plastic mass.
Take for every pound of this material one ounce of gum tragacanth which has been soaked in hot water.
Mix vermillion with enough gum tragacanth dissolved in water to form a thin paste; add a few drops of almond oil, place the mixture in rouge pots, and dry by a very gentle heat.
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