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SULPHUR.
ill
Mix. — Dose, half a dram, three or fourtimes a day. (Hufeland)
ANTI-PLEURITIC POWDER.
Pulvis pleuriticus Mynsichti. (Wirtem.)
R. Sublimed Sulphur, half an ounce.
Wild Boar's Teeth, "1 of each,
Pike's Jaws, J one ounce.
Flowers of White Poppy,
half an ounce.Make a powder. — Dose, from a scrupleto half a dram. — It was to the osseous par-ticles that superstitious credulity attributedthe reputed efficacy of this powder, whichhowever is not absolutely inert as those areinto which only the phosphate of lime en-ters. The sulphur renders it excitant.
laxative powder. (Ellis ; Ratier)
R. Sublimed Sulphur, 1 of each,
Supertartrate of Potass, J one ounce.White Sugar, a sufficient quantity.
Mix. (Ratier)
Ellis prescribes half an ounce of sul-phur and one ounce of supertartrate.This powder is mixed with honey.
Delicate stomachs better support a mix-ture at equal parts of precipitated sulphurand of calcined magnesia, a spoonful ofwhich mixture may be taken four or fivetimes a day in milk. (Ellis)
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incisive powder.
(Gall. ; Form.
Poudre anti-asthmatique.Hûr. Fr.)
R. White Sugar,
Sublimed Sulphur,Dried Squill,
Mix.anti-dysexteric powder.R. Sublimed Sulphur,
FennelGum Arabic.
three parts.
two parts.
one part.
(VanMons)
eight parts,oue part.
White Sugar.
' \ of each, sixteen parts.
Mix.absorbent purgative powder.
Pulvis catharticus absorbens. (Swkdiaur)
R. Subcarbonate of Lime, \ of each,Sublimed Sulphur, J one ounce.Mix. — Dose, from ten to twenty grains,to children, and from half a dram to onedram, to adults.
anti-catarrhal powder.
Pulvis sulphurosus seu sulphureus seu ca-tarrhalis. (Fuld. ; Hamb. ; Cast. Bo-
Sublimed Sulphur,
one ounce and a half.Fennel,
Florentine Iris, > of each, one ounce.Liquorice,Senna, six drams.
Make a powder. (Hufeland)Dose, one or two drams.
RESOLVENT PECTORAL POWDER.
Pulvis pectoralis resolvens. (Bruns.; Pa-lat. ; Wirtem.)
rus.; Cadet de Gassicourt; Hufs-
land)
R. Sublimed Sulphur, \ of each,
Liquorice, six drams.
Camphor, half a dram.
Make a powder. (Cast. Borus.)
R. Sublimed Sulphur,
Nitrate of Potass, I of each,
Liquorice, two drams.
Fennel, J
Mix. (Fuld.)
Hamb. gives the same formula, but sub-stitutes hydrochlorate of ammonia for thenitre.
R. Sublimed Sulphur, two drams.
Supertartrate of Potass, six drams.Red Sulphuret of Antimony,
fifteen grains.Make a powder. (Hamb.)
R. Sugar, three ounces.
Florentine Iris, nine scruples.
Sublimed Sulphur, four scruples.
Saffron, one dram.
Gum Arabic,"I
Starch, V of each, one scruple.
Liquorice, J
Make a powder. (Cadet de Gassi-court)
R.
R.
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of each,half anounce,of each,
^ree drains.
Simple Diaireos SpeciesCold Diatragacanth
Species,Liquorice, 1
Marshmallows,
Armenian Bole, 1 of each,
Sublimed Sulphur, ]" two drains.
Terra Sigillata, one dram and a half.White Sugar Candy, six ounces.
Make a powder. (Palat.)
R. Root of Arum, ~|
---------- Florentine Iris,
Deutoxide of Antimony, [Sublimed Sulphur,Native Cinnabar,Crabs' Eyes, J
Make a powder. (Bruns. ; Wirtem.)Dose, from a scruple to half a drain.
of each,
half an
ounce.