Laxative Powder.
Take Senna and Cream of Tartar, each as much as you will, and reduce them into a Powder.
Its a short Composition, but a most benign Medicine, purging very mildly and without Trouble, Gripes or Sickness. For Cream of Tartar is the best Corrector of Senna.
The Dose is from half a dram to 2 scruples, or 1 dram for grown Persons, to be taken at Night.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710