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A cordial Epithem

An automatically extracted historical preparation published directly for live editorial review. Botanical identity, formula structure and safety may be incomplete; this is not treatment or dosage guidance.

Related plant contextPiscicide PreparationCordial RouteInternal use Plant recordJoannesia princeps ↗

Piscicide

Piscicide is retained as a hazardous, toxicological or harmful-use term. It is presented for completeness and research, never as a practical instruction.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.

It documentsA historical source passage and its preparation structure.
It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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Automated live-review record

This formula was extracted automatically from a historical source and published directly for live editorial inspection. It may contain OCR, title, botanical-identity, ingredient, structure or safety errors. Do not use it as treatment, dosage or self-care guidance.

Source: The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects by Colborne, Robert, active 1753 (1753), paragraph-4020.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Hun- gary- water, fix Drams ; and com¬ pound Spirit of Lavender, and Spirit of Saffron, of each two Drams j apopleftic Balfam, a Scruple, and Oil of Cloves, ten Drops :
  • the Spirit that comes over firfl in the Didiilation of magiderial Worm -wa¬ ter, fix Ounces
  • Spirit of Scurvy- grafs, two Drams
  • Venice- Soap fcraped thin, one Ounce and a half
  • Opium, one Dram, and Saffron, half a Dram :

Method as extracted

  1. Take Hun- gary- water, fix Drams ; and com¬ pound Spirit of Lavender, and Spirit of Saffron, of each two Drams j apopleftic Balfam, a Scruple, and Oil of Cloves, ten Drops :
  2. Mix them.
  3. Take the Spirit that comes over firfl in the Didiilation of magiderial Worm -wa¬ ter, fix Ounces ;
  4. Steep them duly, and pour off the Clear.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

Toxic / do not self-use

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • Unreviewed automated import: this record is public for live editorial inspection and has not passed manual identity, formula or safety review.
  • Historical formula: ingredient identity, strength, contamination risk and terminology may differ from modern practice.
  • Do not use this record as dosage or treatment guidance. Every ingredient, route and contraindication requires qualified editorial verification.
  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic, toxic metal or mineral.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

The public record separates the historical passage, structured preparation data, use relationship and modern safety boundary. Same-plant context is presented as context, never as proof that this preparation was intended for that use.

Primary and supporting references

  1. The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects — The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the CPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4020.
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