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Male members of the court of Louis XIV in France painted on beauty marks, while Elizabethan Englishmen powdered their faces with ceruse, a toxic mixture of vinegar and white lead.

This mixture of lead and vinegar that Elizabeth used was known as Venetian ceruse, or the spirits of Saturn.

The water used in this preparation contains a portion of the calx suspended by the alkali, and being precipitated by an acid, is called ceruse of antimony.

A pot of ceruse, my child, that I took out of a lady's under petticoat pocket.

But art has taught her to supply furrowed deformities with ceruse boxes, and to repair a decayed complexion with an Italian fucus.