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Ointment to promote absorption of Bubo

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.

Related plant contextPoison PreparationOintment RouteTopical use Plant recordGloriosa superba ↗

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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: Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment by Culverwell, Robert James (historical date not recorded), paragraph-848.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of— Iodine of potassium 1 drachm
  • Tincture of iodine 1 drachm
  • Acetate of morphine 10 grains
  • of blue ointment a similar quantity, and use it in like manner to the preceding
  • of— Calomel 2 drachms
  • Simple ointment 6 drachms

Method as extracted

  1. Take of— Iodine of potassium 1 drachm.
  2. Mix.—Apply constantly a plaister of some of this ointment spread upon rag or lint, over the bubo, and occasionally rub a little of it gently into the skin.—_Doane.
  3. Take of blue ointment a similar quantity, and use it in like manner to the preceding.
  4. Take of— Calomel 2 drachms.

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 herbal remedy, 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, 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. Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; With Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for Their Treatment — Project GutenbergPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-848.
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