Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Buchan's Domestic Medicine : Saline Laxative Powder.

Saline Laxative Powder.

Take of soluble tartar, and cream of tartar, each one drachm; purified nitre, half a drachm. Make them into a powder.

In fevers, and other inflammatory disorders, where it is necessary to keep the body gently open, one of these cooling laxative powders may be taken in a little gruel, and repeated occasionally.

William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785