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Hemlock Pill

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Source: Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manage themselves ... a family herbal: and such useful discoveries in medicine and surgery as have transpired since the demise of the late William Buchan by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1809), paragraph-4994.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Hemlock Pill. — Take any quantity of the infpifTated juice of hem- lock, and adding to it about a fifth part its weight of the powder of the dried leaves, form it into pills of the ordinary fize. — The extraft of hemlock may be taken from one grain to feveral drachms in the day
  • PHI of Muriated Quickfilver. — Diflblve fifteen grains of the Gorrofive fublimate of mercury in two drachms of the faturated folu- tion of crude fal ammoniac, and make it into a pafte, in a glafs mortar, \vith a fufficient quantity of the crumb of bread

Method as extracted

  1. Rub them together in a mortar, till the globules of mercury are perfeilly ex tingui fired ; then add, of Caftilc foap, two drachms ; powdered liquorice, or crumb of bread, a fuffi- cient quantity to give the mafs a proper confiftence for pills. — When flronger mercurial pills are wanted, the quantity of quickfilver may be doubled. ---The dbfe of thefe pills is different, according to the inten- tion with which they are given.

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: toxic metal or mineral, high risk botanical.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manage themselves ... a family herbal: and such useful discoveries in medicine and surgery as have transpired since the demise of the late William Buchan — Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4994.
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