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Historical source record Skin, wounds & external care

Common plaster

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 contextAstringent PreparationPlaster RouteTopical use Plant recordJoannesia princeps ↗

Astringent

A traditional action term for substances described as tightening or drying tissues, often because of tannin-rich preparations.

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: A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, [electronic resource] by Brook, Richard, 19th cent (1840), paragraph-3069.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of common olive oil, six pints ; litharge, reduced to a fine powder, two pounds and" a half

Method as extracted

  1. Take of common olive oil, six pints ; litharge, reduced to a fine powder, two pounds and" a half.
  2. Boil the litharge and oil together over a gentle fire, continually stirring tnem, and keeping always about half a gallon of water in the vessel ; after they have boiled about three hours, a little of the plaster may be taken out and put into cold water, to try if it be of a proper consistence : when that is the case the whole may be suffered to cool, and the water well pressed out of «t with the hands.

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, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, not herbal remedy, not marked promotable. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

Modern safety boundary

External use only

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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.
Sources & editorial standard

Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.

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Primary and supporting references

  1. A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, [electronic resource] — A new family herbal, or, A history & description of all the British and foreign plants, which are useful to man. Either as food, medicine, farming purposes, or in the arts and manufactures, [electronic resource]Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-3069.
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