During the first stage of the venereal disease, one of these cooling powders may be taken three times a-day, with considerable advantage.
Aromatic Opening Powder.
Take of the best Turkey rhubarb, cinnamon, and fine sugar, each two drachms. Let the ingredients be pounded, and afterwards mixed well together.
Where flatulency is accompanied with costiveness, a tea-spoonful of this powder may be taken once or twice a-day, according to circumstances.
Saline Laxative Powder.
Take of soluble tartar, and cream of tartar, each one drachm; purified nitre, half a drachm. Make them into a powder.
In fevers, and other inflammatory disorders, where it is necessary to keep the body gently open, one of these cooling laxative powders may be taken in a little gruel, and repeated occasionally.
Steel Powder.
Take filings of steel, and loaf-sugar, of each two ounces; ginger, two drachms. Pound them together.
In obstructions of the menses, and other cases where steel is proper, a tea-spoonful of this powder may be taken twice a-day, and washed down with a little wine or water.