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VULSION FITS.. 
«Take flowers of zinc, mufk, and factitious cinnabar, of 
each equal parts; mix them together in a glafs or marble 
mortar. The dofe is from three §rains to ten-and upwards, 
maxed in a little treacle or honey, every night and morning. 
. The ufe of this powder, with dipping children in a. 
tub of {pring water every morning’, has very often reliev- 
'_ ed them, when every other remedy has proved wo 
. a2" tho 
PURGING POWDERS ror WORMS. 
~ Take of fcammony, calomel, and the beft Turkey rhubarb, 
in powder, of each £qual parts; double-refined fugar, the, 
weight of the whole; rub it all very well together in a mar-. 
-. ble mortar, and heep Sor ufe. 
*. “Dhe dofe for children is from ten grains to twenty-five, 
ence or twice every week. This is 
preferable to any 
quack medicine whatever. 
“A UNIVERSAL POWDER ror CHILDREN 
en DISORDERS. ° 
Lake of white magnefia, fix drachms; cinnabar of anti- 
 Mony, two fcruples; mix them into a fine powder for ufe. 
_ > ‘This powder will not oaly prevent the numerous dif- 
orders children are liable to,. but will'alfo femove many, 
‘rable to all other remedies yet-known, for children 
~ Gn cutting their teeth, ficknefs at their ftomachs, &c. &c, 
_* The dofe is from ten grains to half a drachm more or 
a - lef twice a-day. : s 
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= Take borax in fine potuder, caftor, cinnamon and myrrh, 
of each three drachms 3 /affron and favin, of each one drachm 
and a half 5. mix them and make a powder for ufe. 
d | drachm of this powder facilitates the birth, and pro- 
2 lochia and menfes.__ 
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POWDER TO PROMOTE DELIVERY. 
samous SYMPATHETIC Siciast 
ree vitriol eight ounces, of gum tragacanth, 
able powder, one ounce / mix thefe toge- 
tity of the powder be fprinkled on 
e above powder, is ufed by the miners at Goffelaer 
ermany, in all their wounds; and, I believe, was 
hever known to fail.” Thisipowder, Monf. Lemery and 
Sir Kenelm Digby tell us, has alfo the following won- 
rful property, that if it be fpread on a cloth dipt in 
‘ood of a wound fo as to incorporate with the blood, 
would be cured, “though the patient were 
‘and never faw the medicine. From this res 
| CULPEPER’s DISPENSATORY, 
POWDER rox EPILEPTIC any Con. 
‘and all that arife from acidities in the ftomach:—This is 
ately flops the bleeding. The vi- ~~ 
| whitene{s in the fun, before it be | 
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POWDER For a SORE THROAT. Vb Wf 
Take one ounce and a half of purified fal ammoniac, and 
half an ounce of purified nitre, mix them very well together 
ina mortar for ufe. 
About fix or eight grains of this powder is to be fre- 
quently held in the mouth, and to be gently fwallowed 
down the throat. This very often anfwers better than 
gargles. If necefflary, lofe a little blood and take a brifk 
purge before you ufe the powder. 
For VOMITINGS, BILIOUS DISORDERS, &e. 40 % 
Take mint water, fyrup of lemons, of each four ounces ; 4 
Salt of wormwood, two’ drachms.. Mix them well together 
TEU 
- In vomitings, hiccups, rheumatifms, fevers, and all 
diforders from a. fizinefs in the blood, no preparation + 
can be more innocent nor more efficacious. Iwo or 
three table {poonfuls“are to be taken every four or five 
hours. 3 
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COLDS, M7 
Take of compound tefaceous powder, one ounce; gum ara- 
bic in powder, half an ounce; water, two quarts, boil tt till 
one pint of the water is wafled : then add to the turbid: des 
cottion of aromatic water, one ounce and a half'y white ugar, 
half. an ounce, and mix the whole well together for ufe, 
This compofition will be found immediately ufeful in 
deftroying tharp corrofive matter in the ftomach, and ab- 
forbing all acidities in the firft paflages. Half a pint of 
y it in fevers, colds, or the like diforders, may be taken 
ht 
DECOCTION ror CATARRHS, 
hree or four times every day, blood warm. — 
SWEATING DRAUGHT, ror recent COLDS. 
Take of the Spirit mindereus, four ounces ; Syrup of pop- 
pies, and fimple cinnamon water, of each one ounce; vola- 
tile falt of hartfhorn, half a feruple. Mix them together 
or two draughts, and take one of them when going into bed, 
and the remainder the fecond evening after. 
In rheumatifms, pains in the head, and other parts, 
the above fweating draught will be found to anfwer every 
= FoR AN INVETERATE COLD or COUGH. 
se Take a large tea-cup full of linfeed, two-penny worth of 
Stick liquorice, and a quarter of a pound of fun raifins.— 
Put thefe into two quarts of foft water, and let it fimmer 
over a flow frre till it ts reduced to one; then add to it a 
quarter of a pound of brown fugar-candy pounded, a table 
Spoonful of old rum, and a table Spoonful. of the beft white- 
wine vinegar or lemon juice. The rum and vinegar are beft 
to be added only to that quantity you are going immediately 
| to take ; Sor if it ts put into the whole it is apt in a little 
time to grow flat. Drink half a pint at going to bed, and 
fympathetic property it derived its name, 
= take a little when the cough is troublefome. 
This 
