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Digestive, or Live-long Candy

Powdered rhubarb, 60 grains; heavy magnesia, 1 ounce; bicarbonate of soda, 1 drachm; finely-powdered ginger, 20 grains; cinnamon powder, 15 grains; powdered white sugar, 2 ounces; mucilage of tragacanth, sufficient square, flat cakes of 20 grains each. water. Dose, a table-spoonful in a cup of quantity; beat together and divide into sweet balm tea, in short draughts.

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