Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.
This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.
The preparation remains searchable as an archival method record without an invented indication.
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: Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner by Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828; Redwood, Theophilus, 1806 - 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1848), monograph-offset-1487750-4.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Dilute nitric acid: Pi'cparcdion. — To a mixture of 5 parts of nitric acid, specific gravity 1-42, and 10 parts of water, contained in an earthen vessel, add 1 part of sugar or starch ; apply the heat of a water-bath until nitrous vapours cease to be evolved, then evaporate a portion of the liquid and the oxalic acid will crystallize from the remainder on cooling.
Method as extracted
- Mix according to the source passage: Pi'cparcdion. — To a mixture of 5 parts of nitric acid, specific gravity 1-42, and 10 parts of water, contained in an earthen vessel, add 1 part of sugar or starch ; apply the heat of a water-bath until nitrous vapours cease to be evolved, then evaporate a portion of the liquid and the oxalic acid will crystallize from the remainder on cooling.
Live editorial status
This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, title ingredient mismatch, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.
Professional review advised
Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.
- 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: corrosive or toxic chemical.
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
- Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner — Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitionerPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at monograph-offset-1487750-4.