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Camphorated Dover's Powder
purified chloroform, and alcohol, with 6 Pulverize 5 drachms camphor with ether, grains morphia. Used to diminish the pain add 5 drachms prepared chalk, 5 drachms in extracting teeth, by applying two plugs of pulverized liquorice, and 17 grains sulphate cotton, moistened with the liquid, to the of morphine. Dose, from 1 to 10 grains, gums around the tooth for 1 or 2 minutes. It used in all kinds of fevers, and as an ano- must not be swallowed. dyne.