Lead(II) salt of acetic acid; a white crystalline substance with a sweetish taste.
1Use one teaspoonful of sugar of lead to one quart of water.
2A wash of weak sugar of lead water, is also good for burns.
3Besides sulphur there was sugar of lead in it and tincture of nux vomica and bay rum.
4Take of sugar of lead, 1 oz.
5The copperas acts very much like sugar of lead and in some cases is very much more effective.
6But best of all is a wash of strong alcohol in which is a little sugar of lead as an antiseptic.
7Dissolve a tea-spoonful of sugar of lead in water, and pour the clear solution into a decanter or large glass bottle.
8There is no trace; of sweetness in the constituents of sugar of lead, or of blueness in the constituents of blue vitriol.
9Ferrous and ferric acetates are used as mordants; normal lead acetate is known in commerce as sugar of lead (q.v.
10Moisten a slice of wheat bread with sugar of lead, or pearl-ash water; bind it on, and keep wetting it as it becomes dry.
11For calicoes that fade, put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead into a pailful of water and soak the garment fifteen minutes before washing.
12Tea-roses are not red nor Neapolitan violets blue; sugar is only sweet to those unversed in metaphysics, and sugar of lead not even to them.
13The following is also recommended as a good cooling compound for heavy bearings:-Tallow2 lb., plumbage 6 oz., sugar of lead 4 oz.
14Sugar of lead is best for delicate greens, blues and tans.
15"And now, little miss, hurry- sugarof lead bandages till evening."
16"You know Mrs. Carlyle said that Owen's sweetness reminded her of sugar of lead."
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