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Decoction of DECOCTIONS

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Documented in sourceVenereal PreparationDecoction RouteInternal use

Venereal

Venereal is the condition or symptom label preserved in the historical source data. The label may be older, broader or less precise than current diagnostic terminology.

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source 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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Historical use wording: the venereal disease, and may supply the place of Lisbon diet- drink

Source: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise for the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for private practitioners. ... containing new treatises on sea-bathing, mineral waters, vaccine, inoculation, &c., &c. by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1856), narrative-offset-701682.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • DECOCTIONS: of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice and mezereon root, of each, half an ounce; shavinsrs of guaiacum and sassafras wood, of each, one ounce: crude antimony, powdered, an ounce and a half

Method as extracted

  1. Boil according to the source passage: The following decoction 'is said to be similar to that used by Kennedy, in the cure of the venereal disease, and may supply the place of Lisbon diet- drink. Take of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice and mezereon root, of each, half an ounce; shavinsrs of guaiacum and sassafras wood, of each, one ounce: crude antimony, powdered, an ounce and a half.

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Modern safety boundary

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  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: toxic metal or mineral, serious disease claim.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Domestic medicine : or, a treatise for the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for private practitioners. ... containing new treatises on sea-bathing, mineral waters, vaccine, inoculation, &c., &c. — Domestic medicine : or, a treatise for the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for private practitioners. ... containing new treatises on sea-bathing, mineral waters, vaccine, inocPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-701682.
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