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OF THE OPHTHALMIA, OR

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.

Use not statedUse not stated PreparationTincture 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

Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.

This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.

Use not stated in the extracted passage.

The preparation remains searchable as an archival method record without an invented indication.

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: Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the cure and prevention of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399; Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824. n 84110426; Coffin, John G. (John Gorham), 1769-1829. n 85247863 (1825), paragraph-1973.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • After the inflammation is gone off, if the eyes still remain weak and tender, they may be bathed every night and morning with cold water and a little brandy, — six parts of the former to one of the latter
  • The most proper medicine is the Peruvian bark, which may either be given in substance, or prepared in the following manner : — Take an ounce of the bark in powder, with two drachms of Winter’s bark, and boil them in an English quart of wrater to a pint : when it has boiled nearly long enough, add half an ounce of liquorice root sliced

Method as extracted

  1. Let the liquor be strained.

Live editorial status

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

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: controlled or narcotic, toxic metal or mineral.
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. Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the cure and prevention of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners — Domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the cure and prevention of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. Containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitionersPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1973.
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