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Ointment of APSIMEL juice

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.

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Ointment

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

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source 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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Historical use wording: Itchings in any Part of the Body, and is a mod noble Ointment

Source: The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: [translated] with some notes relating to manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice by Quincy, John, -1722 (1727), narrative-offset-270703.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • APSIMEL juice: of the Juice of Celandine, and bearded Mullen, each one Pint; of defputnated Honey O " three 194 Simple Ointments', three Parts

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Take of the Juice of Celandine, and bearded Mullen, each one Pint; of defputnated Honey O " three 194 Simple Ointments', three Parts; boil gradually till the Juices are ev a* porated; adding thereunto, if the Operator pleafes, calcin’d Vitriol, and Alum, with Coperas, and again boil into an Ointment, S« si* u The fird Difpenfatory adds from the Author, ct that if occafion requires, this fhould be at lad boiled up to a pretty thick Confidence, and fays, that it certainly will cure Itchings in any Part of the Body, and is a mod noble Ointment. c< But it feems the prefent Praftice hath not Faith <c enough to rely upon it for any thing, as neither £C this nor the foregoing are ever prefcribed or c£ made.

Live editorial status

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Modern safety boundary

External use only

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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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: [translated] with some notes relating to manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice — The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: [translated] with some notes relating to manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practicePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-270703.
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