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For the Virtues of this renowned and famous cordial Opiate, fee Ve- nice-treacle

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Documented in sourceCordial PreparationCordial RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamon ↗

Cordial

Cordial is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

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Historical use wording: the Virtues of this renowned and famous cordial Opiate, fee Ve- nice-treacle

Source: The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects by Colborne, Robert, active 1753 (1753), paragraph-2942.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Here is contained one Grain of Opium in a Dram of the Powder, and confequentlv the fame in each half Ounce of the E le fluary
  • Troches of Squills, half a Pound ; long Pepper, drained Opium, and dried Vipers, of each three Ounces
  • Cinnamon, Opobal- fam or expreffed Oil of Nutmegs, of each two Ounces
  • Troches of Squills, fix Ounces; of Vipers, the Troches called Hedy- chroon, long Pepper, and Opium, of each three Ounces
  • Tops of the leffer Centaury, Seeds of the Carrot of Crete, Roots of the bufhy rooted, or long Birthwort, Jews Pitch or Amber, Galbanum, Opoponax, Sa¬ gapenum, and Cador, of each two Drams

Method as extracted

  1. Take Troches of Squills, half a Pound ; long Pepper, drained Opium, and dried Vipers, of each three Ounces ;
  2. Take Troches of Squills, fix Ounces; of Vipers, the Troches called Hedy- chroon, long Pepper, and Opium, of each three Ounces ;
  3. Mix all together and make an EJe Fluary.

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  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic, corrosive or toxic chemical, high risk botanical.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects — The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the CPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-2942.
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