James's Powder is the modern representative of an old nostrum of Dr Robert James (1703-76) of London. The preparation in the pharmacopeia which is supposed to have similar virtues in febrile affections consists of oxide of antimony and phosphate of lime. It is but little used now.
James's Powder
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 278
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