Take of gum-arabic, in powder, 4 oz.
boiling water, 8 oz.
Triturate the gum with a small portion of the water until
it be dissolved.
It is necessary to pass the mucilage through linen, in
order to free it from pieces of wood and other impurities,
which always adhere to the gum: the linen may be placed in
a funnel.
Mucilage of gum-arabic is very useful in making up medicines, &c.
it also possesses the powers of a _mucilaginous demulcent_ in a
high degree; and is frequently given in _diarrhœa_, _dysentery_,
_chin-cough_, _hoarseness_, _strangury_, _&c._