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GILLIFLOWERS, SYRUP OF

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Use not statedUse not stated PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use

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.

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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-6916.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • To a quart of flowers put two quarts of spring water, let it stand for two days in a cold place, and, after boiling it till it comes to a quart, strain it off, put in i lb. of double-refined sugar, and boil it up again for three or four minutes ; pour it into a china basin, let it cool, and when it is quite cold skim it
  • Juniper berries alone, however, will not impart the taste preferred by English palates, and the following recipe tells its own tale on this point: — Mix together 80 gallons of corn spirit ; oil of turpentine, i pint ; oil of junipei', 3 ozs. ; creosote, 2 drachms ; oranges and lemons, of each nine, cut in slices ; and water, 35 gallons
  • Let the mixture remain for a week, and then distil off" 100 gallons of it

Method as extracted

  1. Put it into bottles, cork them well, and tie them down with leather.
  2. Let the mixture remain for a week, and then distil off" 100 gallons of it.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: 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

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: corrosive or toxic chemical, serious disease claim.
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-6916.
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