This powder is composed of prepared Chalk half a pound, Cinnamon four ounces, Tormentil three ounces, Gum arabic three ounces, and Long pepper half an ounce, reduced to a fine powder, and mixed together, with the addition of Gum opium.
An ounce of the powder, which contains only a scruple of gum opium, may be administered in a quart of gruel, in cases of continued purging or scouring, every four or five hours, or as circumstances may require, but its use is to be discontinued when the purging is checked.
No. X.—Discutient Powders.
This powder is composed of Zinc vitriol three drams, and Bole armen. one dram.
A lotion, composed of half an ounce of this powder, and one quart of water, is a proper application to sore backs, and to recent swellings from blows or injuries of any kind.
Bandages may be used, wetted with this lotion, in sprains of the back sinews.
No. XI.—Astringent Powder.