Compound Powder of Cinnamon

Ingredients

• Cinnamon in fine powder 2 ounces
• Ginger in fine powder 2 ounces
• Cardamon deprived of the capsules in fine powder 1 ounce
• Nutmeg in fine powder 1 ounce

Method

1. 1

   Rub them together until they are thoroughly mixed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Compound powder of cinnamon i ounce. Hard soap in powder 2 ounces. Syrup sufficient quantity. Mix the powders together, add the syrup and beat the whole together into a uniform mass. The dose is from i to 3 pills. The above mass should be made into 480 pills. This is an active purgative pill, and is reliable to procure that effect and will please those using it. COMPOUND CATHARTIC PILL. Compound extract of colocynth y^. ounce. Extract of jalap in fine powder 180 grains. Mild chloride of mercury 180 grains. Gamboge in fine powder 40 grains. Mix the powders together, then with water form a pilular mass, to be divided into 180 pills. This is introduced to combine smallness of bulk with efficiency and comparative mildness of action and a peculiar tendency to the biliary organs. May be given in cases of bilious fever in the early stages, and in hepititis, jaundice and all those derangments of the alimentary canal, or disorders generally dependent upon congestion of the portal circu- lation. COMPOUND PILL OF HEMLOCK. Extract of hemlock two and one-half ounces. Ipecac powdered one-half ounce. MEDICAL DIVISION. 14! Treacle sufficient quantity. Mix the extract and ipecac, and add of treacle sufficient quantity to make a pill mass. Make 288 pills. The pill is an anodyne expectorant combi- nation useful in chronic bronchial troubles. Dose,, from I to 2 pills every 3 or 4 hours. COMPOUND PILLS OF IRON. Myrrh in fine powder 2 drams. Carbonate of soda i dram. Sulphate of iron i dram. Syrup, a sufficient quantity. Rub the myrrh with the carbonate of soda, and afterwards with the sulphate of iron, until they are thoroughly mixed, and then beat them up with the syrup to form a pilular mass, to be divided in- to 80 pills. It is a good emmenagogue and antiseptic tonic. From 2 to 6 pills may be given at a dose 3 times a day. PILLS OF CARBONATE OF IRON. Sulphate of iron 8 ounces. Carbonate of soda 9 ounces. Clarified honey 3 ounces. Sugar in coarse powder 2 ounces. Boiling water 2 pints. Syrup, a sufficient quantity. Dissolve the salts separately, each in a pint of the water, a fluid ounce of the syrup added to each pint of the water. Mix the solutions when cold in a bottle just large enough to hold them. Close it 142 DOMESTIC GUIDE. accurately with a stopper, and set it by, that the carbonate of iron may subside. Pour off the su- pernant liquid, and, having mixed water recently boiled with syrup in the proportion of a pint to the fluid ounce, wash the precipitate with the mixture until the washings no longer have a salty taste. Place the precipitate on a flannel cloth to drain, and, having expressed as much of the water as possible, mix it immediately with the clarified honey and sugar. Lastly, by means of a water bath, evaporate the mixture, constantly stirring until it is brought to the weight of 8 ounces. Make 480 pills. The pills are admirably adapted to cases where iron is indicated. It is considered especially use- ful in chlorosis and amenorrhoe and other female complaints. It improves the coloring matter of the system, and produces red cheeks and lips. Dose, I, 2 or 3 pills a day. COMPOUND RHUBARB PILL. Rhubarb in fine powder i ounce. Socotrine aloes in fine powder 360 grains. Myrrh in fine powder one-half ounce. Oil of peppermint one-half dram. Beat them together so as to make a pilular mass ; to be divided into 240 pills. This is a warm laxa- tive tonic, useful in costiveness with debility of stomach. From 2 to 4 pills may be taken twice a day or from 10 to 20 grains of the mass. MEDICAL DIVISION. 1 43 COMPOUND PILLS OF ASSAFETIDA. Galbanum 360 grains. Myrrh 360 grains. Assafetida 120 grains. Syrup, a sufficient quantity. Beat them together so as to form a pilular mass, to be divided into 240 pills. This compound is given as an anti-spasmodic and emmenagogue in chlorosis and hysteria, in that nervous class of females who are peculiarly apt to have these diseases. The dose is from i, 2, 3 or 4 pills at a dose every 4 hours during the day time, and the use of the pills should be persisted in. SEIDLITZ POWDERS. Bicarbonate of soda in fine powder i ounce. Tartrate of potassa and soda in fine powder 3 ounces. Tartaric acid in fine powder 420 grains. Mix intimately the bicarbonate of soda and tar- trate of potassa and soda. Divide this mixture into 12 equal powders. Then divide the tartaric acid into an equal number of powders, with paper of a different color. When used dissolve i pow- der in a glass ^^ full of water, dissolving tartaric acid I powder in another glass with an ounce of water. Then turn them together and drink while foaming. These powders are refrigerant and aperient, and generally very acceptable to the stomach. One pair of them will generally operate slightly. The dose may be repeated every 3 or 4 144 DOMESTIC GUIDE. hours until the desired effect is had. They may- be flavored by adding syrup of ginger, or orange peel or lemon to one of the glasses before admix- ture. PILLS OF IPECAC AND SQUILLS. Compound powder of ipecac 3 ounces. Squill in powder i ounce. Ammoniacum in powder i ounce. Treacle a sufficiency. Mix the powders and beat into a mass with the treacle, and divide into 280 pills. This is a good combination of expectorants along with a little opium to allay irritation and restlessness; well adapted to chronic catarrh with either deficient or greatly excessive expectoration, and to the advanced stages of the acute disease offering similar indica- tions. Dose, I to 3 pills 3 or 4 times a day. COMPOUND POWDER OF CINNAMON. Cinnamon in fine powder 2 ounces. Ginger in fine powder 2 ounces. Cardamon deprived of the capsules in fine pow- der I ounce. Nutmeg in fine powder i ounce

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