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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 book of health; a compendium of domestic medicine (1840), paragraph-704.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- of spermaceti, six drachms ; white wax, two drachms; olive oil, three ounces
- James’s powder, twenty-five grains ; resin of guaiacum, in pow- der, two scruples
- If the disease be occa- sioned by teething, it should not be stopped, unless it debilitate, or otherwise injure the child ; in which case, the following can be given : — Take of rhubarb, five grains ; prepared chalk or magnesia, ten grains: — mix
Method as extracted
- Take of spermaceti, six drachms ; white wax, two drachms; olive oil, three ounces.
- Melt these together over a slow fire, and stir them con- stantly, until they be cold , In common excoriations, the dressing with the ointment will be sufficient; but if they arise from constitutional causes, a pill may be taken every night, until an alteration take place : — Take of calomel, twenty grains ;
- Rub them together in a mortar for ten minutes, and, with a little con- serve of hips, form them into a mass, and divide into twenty pills.
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- The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
- Automated review flags: toxic metal or mineral, pediatric or infant use.
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Primary and supporting references
- The book of health; a compendium of domestic medicine — The book of health; a compendium of domestic medicinePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-704.