By 1832 Menier's company offered a wide range of medicinal powders and began publishing a catalog detailing its product line.

The business grew rapidly but for the first few years the company's production of chocolate was very limited, as its primary usage was as a medicinal powder and for coating bitter-tasting pills.

The alert about the grasshoppers comes only two weeks after New York City health officials warned of high lead levels in litargirio, an all-purpose medicinal powder sold in stores that cater to Hispanic customers.

In 1853, on the death of his father, Antoine, Émile-Justin Menier inherited a large and successful Parisian company that manufactured a range of medicinal powders.

The grasshopper alert came only two weeks after New York City officials warned of high lead levels in a medicinal powder called litargirio that was being sold in stores catering to Hispanics.

He looked closely at the human, and thought for a moment that he detected a hint of medicinal powder on one cheek.

Spring fever can also make medicinal powders sound like insecticides, as evident in a news account from April 1913.

Aromaticum rosatum is a medicinal powder made of red roses, liquorice, aloeswood, yellowheart, cinnamon, cloves, mace, gum, tragacanth, nutmegs, cardamoms, galangals, spikenard, ambergris, and musk mixed together.

Gunness told the doctor that she had given her late husband medicinal "powders" to help him feel better.

First Aid: Bleeding, purging and prayer, augmented by doses of medicinal powders made from sandalwood, emerald and coral.