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FOTHERGILL'S PILLS

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 contextCathartic PreparationPill RouteInternal use Plant recordAloe succotrina ↗

Cathartic

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

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation 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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Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.

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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 Book of the household [electronic resource] : or, Family dictionary of everything connected with housekeeping and domestic medicine : with the treatment of children, management of the sick room, the sanitary improvements of the dwelling, the duties of servants, and full information on all other subjects relating to personal and domestic comfort by University of Glasgow. Library (1862), paragraph-6493.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Socotrine aloes, 1 drachm ; scammony, | drachm ; extract of colocynth, 1 drachm ; antimonial powder, i drachm

Method as extracted

  1. Cut through the skin down the centre of the back, and raise the flesh carefully on each side with the point of a sharp knife until the sockets of the wings and thighs are reached.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: quality score below 70, primary taxon poison flag, 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, high risk botanical.
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. The Book of the household [electronic resource] : or, Family dictionary of everything connected with housekeeping and domestic medicine : with the treatment of children, management of the sick room, the sanitary improvements of the dwelling, the duties of servants, and full information on all other subjects relating to personal and domestic comfort — The Book of the household [electronic resource] : or, Family dictionary of everything connected with housekeeping and domestic medicine : with the treatment of children, management of the sick room, the sanitary improvements of the dwelling, the duties ofPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-6493.
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