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Ointment of EMOLLIENT CATAPLASM

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 PreparationOintment RouteTopical use

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It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
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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: A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remedies by Ball, John, 1704?-1779 (1769), narrative-offset-322351.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • EMOLLIENT CATAPLASM: of figs, four ounces; yellow bafilicum eintmeént, or our digeftive ointment, one ounce 5 galbanum, ftrained, half an ounce

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Boil them a little together in order to make a poultice, to which may be added a {poonful of olive oil, CATAPLASMA MATURANS., RiPpENING CATAPLASM. Take of figs, four ounces; yellow bafilicum eintmeént, or our digeftive ointment, one ounce 5 galbanum, ftrained, half an ounce.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, title ingredient mismatch, not marked promotable. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.

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. A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remedies — A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remediPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-322351.
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