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Glass bottle with a glass stopper that is covered with a piece of leather with string wrapped round. Label reads "Com. Powd Chalk with Opium". Second label reads "5-15 grains for a dose". From Encyclopaedia Britannica:
Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, Volume 14,Nummer 2, 1810, p. 417: “Compound powder of chalk. L.
Take of prepared chalk, half a pound; cinnamon, four ounces; tormentil, gum-arabic, of each'three ounces; long pepper, half an ounce. Powder them separately, and mix them.
Compound powder of chalk with opium. L.
Take of compound powder of chalk, eight ounces; hard purisied opium, powdered, one dram and an half. Mix them.
From the addition of the opium this remedy becomes still more powerful than the above in restraining diarrhœa.”
Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, Volume 14,Nummer 2, 1810, p. 417: “Compound powder of chalk. L.
Take of prepared chalk, half a pound; cinnamon, four ounces; tormentil, gum-arabic, of each'three ounces; long pepper, half an ounce. Powder them separately, and mix them.
Compound powder of chalk with opium. L.
Take of compound powder of chalk, eight ounces; hard purisied opium, powdered, one dram and an half. Mix them.
From the addition of the opium this remedy becomes still more powerful than the above in restraining diarrhœa.”
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