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tar of Montpellier, a a 3ss. cinnamon, 3ij. Reduce all to a
fine powder, sift and incorporate it with a sufficient quantity
of the honey of roses. These opiates are enclosed in fine
earthen-ware glazed pots, to be used as occasion may re-
quire."
" The powders, may be, more convenient for some persons.
I will give here two of excellent composition.

Powder for Cleansing and Whitening the Teeth.

" Calcine, or reden by the fire twelve ounces of pumice-
stone ; reduce it to powder in a mortar, and prepare it on the
porphyry st ne.
Take again, Fine or common lake, 3vi; Cuttle-fish-bone,
3 iv ; Bole Armenic, Red earth, and Calcined Alum, of each,
; Cloves, 3i.
gij; Cinnamon, 3 j
i
Reduce these drugs to powder in a covered mortar, and
pass them through a very fine and covered sieve. When
this powder is sifted, you join that of the pumice-stone, por-
phyrized ; and in order that all may be well mixed together,
and that this powder be extremely fine, pass again once
through the sieve ; then you put it up.
" It is used by means of a small sponge a little moistened,
" It may also be made into an opiate by mixing it with a
sufficient quantity of the clarified honey of roses."

Antiscorbutic Gargle.*

Take sarsaparilla, esquine, and shavings of guaiacum, of
each, 3ij. Infuse them as described before, for the space
of twenty-four hours, in a half scptier of myrtle-water, with

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