| Title: | Perfume |
| Original Title: | Parfum |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 11 (1765), p. 941 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Gillian Stumpf [Columbia University] |
| Subject terms: |
Medicine
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| Citation (MLA): | "Perfume." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Gillian Stumpf. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.571>. Trans. of "Parfum," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 11. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Perfume." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Gillian Stumpf. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.571 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Parfum," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 11:941 (Paris, 1765). |
Perfume, in Medecine and Pharmacy . These compositions do not always emit an agreeable odor; there are pleasant and unpleasant varieties.
They are divided into liquid perfumes and dry perfumes . The liquids are like scented water or potpourri. The dry ones resemble medicinal lozenges or juniper berries that one burns in a sick person’s room or in hospitals to freshen stale air.
A room may be scented with orange blossom water, vinegar, ammonia salt spirits, or wine spirits placed on a stove in a tall-rimmed vial, to better diffuse the vapors.
Cephalic perfume . Take a large piece and a half of styrax calamite and benzoin; a large piece of juniper gum and incense; two scruples of cloves and cinnamon; medium-sized bay, sage, marjoram and rosemary leaves. Make a powder of all these ingredients and throw it onto hot coals, so that the sick person breathes the fumes in through the nose.
Similar compositions can be made for other uses, to induce menstruation, salivation, etc.