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Historical source record Cancer & abnormal growth

COMPOUND POWDER OF CHALK

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.

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Cancer

A disease of cellular proliferation that is malignant and primary, characterized by uncontrolled cellular proliferation, local cell invasion and metastasis.

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: Pharmacopoeia officinalis Britannica, being a new and correct translation of the late edition of the London pharmacopoeia, with which are incorporated, in alphabetical order, all the formulae of the Edinburgh and Dublin Colleges; together with notes explanatory of the different processes by Stocker, Richard. n 92051321 (1810), paragraph-3338.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of Prepared Chalk half a pound, Cinnamon Bark four ounces, 'Tormentil Root, Acacia Gum, of each three ounces, Long Pepper half an ounce
  • 'The Pulvis carbonatis calcis compositus, e. is made with four ounces of prepared chalk, a drachm and a balf of cinnamon, and balf a drachm of nutmegs. —a PULVIS CRETAE COMPOSITUS CUM
  • of Compound Powder of Chalk six ounces and a half, Hard Opium powdered four sctuples

Method as extracted

  1. Take of Prepared Chalk half a pound, Cinnamon Bark four ounces, 'Tormentil Root, Acacia Gum, of each three ounces, Long Pepper half an ounce.
  2. Rub them separately into a very fine pow- der; then mix.
  3. Take of Compound Powder of Chalk six ounces and a half, Hard Opium powdered four sctuples.

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.

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.
Sources & editorial standard

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

  1. Pharmacopoeia officinalis Britannica, being a new and correct translation of the late edition of the London pharmacopoeia, with which are incorporated, in alphabetical order, all the formulae of the Edinburgh and Dublin Colleges; together with notes explanatory of the different processes — Pharmacopoeia officinalis Britannica, being a new and correct translation of the late edition of the London pharmacopoeia, with which are incorporated, in alphabetical order, all the formulae of the Edinburgh and Dublin Colleges; together with notes explaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-3338.
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