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Ointment of Gum elemi

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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Piscicide

Piscicide is retained as a hazardous, toxicological or harmful-use term. It is presented for completeness and research, never as a practical instruction.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation 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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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: Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... by Quincy, John, -1722. n 85067259 (1782), paragraph-6733.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of mutton fuet, frefh and tried, two pounds ; gum elemi, one pound ; common turpentine, ten ounces-
  • of Ample ointment, an ounce and a half; precipitate ful- phur, two drachms ; white mer- cury precipitate, two fcruples

Method as extracted

  1. Take of mutton fuet, frefh and tried, two pounds ; gum elemi, one pound ; common turpentine, ten ounces-.
  2. Melt the gum with L .
  3. Take of Ample ointment, an ounce and a half; precipitate ful- phur, two drachms ; white mer- cury precipitate, two fcruples.
  4. Mix them well together, and moif- ten them with ley of tartar, that they may be made into an oint- ment.

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, 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: toxic metal or mineral, corrosive or toxic chemical.
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. Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... — Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-6733.
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