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Historical source record Immune, infection & fever

An Eryfipelas Ointment

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 contextDiaphoretic PreparationOintment RouteTopical use Plant recordElder ↗

Diaphoretic

Diaphoretic is a historical action or property term used in ethnobotanical literature. It describes reported intent, not a verified pharmacological effect.

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

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It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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Automated live-review record

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Source: A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects by Colborne, Robert (1756), paragraph-5072.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Juice of Elder-leaves (or Rinds) Lin¬ feed Oil, of each two Ounces :
  • Boil to the Confumption of the Juice, and Soap, four Ounces
  • Oint- ful. nient of Alabafter, a Dram and a Renale Unguent
  • Ointment half
  • Caflile HemorrhoidalUnguent
  • Pop- Soap, an Ounce and a half
  • Amber, two Drams :
  • FulleP^ Earth, three Drams, and When the Piles are outwardly

Method as extracted

  1. Take Juice of Elder-leaves (or Rinds) Lin¬ feed Oil, of each two Ounces :
  2. Boil to the Confumption of the Juice, and Soap, four Ounces ;
  3. Take Oint- ful. nient of Alabafter, a Dram and a Renale Unguent.
  4. Take Ointment half ;
  5. Take Caflile HemorrhoidalUnguent.
  6. Take Pop- Soap, an Ounce and a half;
  7. Mix them.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, 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, high risk botanical.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects — A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the hiPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-5072.
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