chalk mixture

English

Noun

chalk mixture (usually uncountable, plural chalk mixtures)

1. A preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, formerly used to treat diarrhea in infants.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chalk mixture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)