Large cats often require two powders. The dose might be repeated if necessary.
Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.
Get a chemist to rub down a medium-size croton bean with about 40 grains of sugar of milk, and divide into four powders.
Coloring for ice cream, may be made in this way: take of powdered cochineal, cream of tartar and powdered alum, each two drachms; of salts of tartar, ten grains; pour upon the powders half a pint of boiling water; let it stand for two hours to settle, or filter through paper. Use as much of this infusion as will give the desired shade.