Talk:Phloxine
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History and naming of phloxine
[edit]Could a competent chemistry historian please add some information on the history of the isolation of and the naming of phloxine and its earliest uses? Obviously it was named after the phlox flower, but by whom, when, and with what intended applications? No cited articles here are early enough. It's an internet recency problem. I ran across a mention of phloxine in a book from 1870 as a prolonger of youthful appearance, with no further details given, and i wondered if the archly worded reference was to its use as a component in cosmetics such as rouge. From "Love and Its Hidden History" by Paschal Beverly Randolph, at https://archive.org/stream/21024510.4826.emory.edu/21024510_4826_djvu.txt -- the quote is: "Aspasia herself used similar preparations, which she procured of the ancient Egyptian priesthood; this very day the Italian, Cuilna Vilmara, supplies his numerous aristocratic patrons with the old form of it known as Phloxine ... Preparations having a similar basis and use now are, to my certain knowledge, extensively made and used in France and other parts of Europe." I would be most grateful for an improvement in the article. Thank you. 75.101.104.17 (talk) 21:19, 17 July 2022 (UTC)