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Distilled preparation of Hydrargyri biniodidum

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.

Use not statedUse not stated PreparationDistilled Water RouteRoute not stated

No specific intended use is stated in the extracted passage

The extracted preparation passage does not state a specific intended use.

It documentsA historical source passage and its preparation structure.
It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
Use relationship map

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Use not stated in the extracted passage.

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: Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physicians by Redwood Theophilus, 1806 -, 1892; Bentley Robert; Pereira Jonathan, 1804-1853; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1872), materia-359-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Hydrargyri biniodidum: Boiling distilled Water . . . ..4 pints. Dissolve the percliloride of mercury in three pints, and the iodide of potassium in the remainder of the water, and mix the two solu- tions.

Method as extracted

  1. Distill according to the source passage: Boiling distilled Water . . . ..4 pints. Dissolve the percliloride of mercury in three pints, and the iodide of potassium in the remainder of the water, and mix the two solu- tions.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, promotion title hygiene failed, 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: toxic metal or mineral.
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. Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physicians — Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently orderedPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-359-1.
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