Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Buchan's Domestic Medicine : Steel Powder.

Steel Powder.

Take filings of steel, and loaf-sugar, of each two ounces; ginger, two drachms. Pound them together.

In obstructions of the menses, and other cases where steel is proper, a tea-spoonful of this powder may be taken twice a-day, and washed down with a little wine or water.

William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785