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Historical source record Pain, inflammation & musculoskeletal

Eye Ointment

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 contextToothache PreparationOintment RouteTopical use Plant recordCinnamomum camphora ↗

Toothache

Toothache 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.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.

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It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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Automated live-review record

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Source: Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners. To which is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1818), paragraph-4941.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of camphor, and calamine stone levigated, each six drams ; verde- grise, well prepared, two drams; hogslard, and mutton suet, prepared, of each two -ounces

Method as extracted

  1. Take of hogslard prepared, four ounces ; w’hite wax, two drains ; tutty prepared, one ounce; melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and then sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them till the ointment is colcJ« - «/>i * k. * Ct This ointment will be more efficacious, and of a better consistence, it two or three drams of camphor be rubbed up with a little oil, and inti- mately mixed with it.
  2. Take of camphor, and calamine stone levigated, each six drams ; verde- grise, well prepared, two drams; hogslard, and mutton suet, prepared, of each two -ounces.
  3. Rub the camphor well with the powder; afterwards mix in the lard and suet, continuing the triture till they be perfectly united.

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, 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

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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.
  • Automated review flags: high risk botanical, invasive or sensitive route.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners. To which is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc — Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners. To which is added ... rulesPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4941.
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