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‘¢' Take of Arsenious Acid, broken into small pieces, Carbonate of Potassa, each, eighty

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Use not statedUse not stated PreparationTincture RouteInternal use

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It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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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 Dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1843), paragraph-8320.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • S. formula, yet it is to be recollected that the Imperial pint is nearly one-fourth larger than the wine pint. ‘The Dublin solution is one-sixteenth weaker, in consequence of the very in- judicious alteration from the standard formula, of substituting sixty instead of sixty-four grains of arsenious acid to the pint of liquid
  • Barker, in his Observations on the Dublin Pharmacopeia, informs us, that the reason for this change was the supposition that less danger of error would arise in weighing out sixty than sixty-four grains; as the former quantity could be weighed by a single weight

Method as extracted

  1. Boil the Arsenious Acid and Carbonate of Potassa with half a pint of the Water in a glass vessel, until they are dissolved.
  2. Add the Compound Tincture of Lavender to the cooled liquor.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, quality score below 70, promotion title hygiene failed, promotion title hygiene score below 90, 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

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  • 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: toxic metal or mineral.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

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Primary and supporting references

  1. The Dispensatory of the United States of America — The Dispensatory of the United States of AmericaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-8320.
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