Common Cathartic Powder.
Take Rosin of Jalap, Scammony prepared; each 5 grains; Senna, Cream of Tartar, each half a scruple; Oil of Cloves 1 drop, mix.
Its not much from Pulvis Diasenne, but is contracted more, and in my Judgment excells it.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710