Take half a drachm each of pomegranate flowers and dried red rose, a drachm of ground cinnamon, half an ounce of Gum Arabic. Leave to set in ten ounces of boiling water for three hours; to the strained liquid add forty drops of Laudanum and an ounce of syrup of diacodus. Mix and label Strengthening mixture; a teasponful or two after every loose stool. If this remedy is not passed as diarrhea, take thirty drops every {illeg} [evening?], more {illeg} as occasion demands. I would like to completely avoid the common usage of Rhubarb or any other cathartic.