Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.
This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.
This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗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: The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... Being an improvement of the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis by Lewis, William, 1708-1781 (1791), paragraph-13059.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Mix them into a mafs according to art, to be dried in the air till it be fit for the formation of »pills, each weighing one grain
- Pills of Elaterium. ~ Take of ait Cae The pureft gum ammoniac, two aunces, Socotorine aloes, _Gamboge, each two drams
Method as extracted
- Mix them into a mafs according to art, to be dried in the air till it be fit for the formation of »pills, each weighing one grain.
- Mix them, by means of bitter tinc- Preparations and Compofttions.
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, 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.
Professional review advised
Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.
- 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: high risk botanical.
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
- The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... Being an improvement of the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis — The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... Being an improvement of the New dispensatory of Dr. LewisPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-13059.