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Opium, five Drams

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Use not statedUse not stated PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordFerula ammoniacum ↗

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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: The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, and uses of the simples as well as compounds ... by Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763 (1765), paragraph-3064.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Opium, five Drams:
  • Balfam o Peru, two Drams ;' common Syrup a fuflicient Quantity to make a Mafs for Pills. if bb pa ae eh tae! * This Compofition is intended to fupply the Place _ of the Storax Pill; and likewife it may be given in’ Cafes where an Opiate of flow Operation is neceflary, as in tickling Coughs, &c
  • Four Grains of the Pill _, €ontain nearly half a Grain of Opium
  • Pilule pacifici vulgo Matthzi. -- Compefing, or Matthews’s Pi//, Take of Gum Ammoniac, three Ounces
  • Ruffian Caf- tor, two Ounces

Method as extracted

    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, promotion title hygiene failed, missing instructions, 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

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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.
    • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic.
    Sources & editorial standard

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    Primary and supporting references

    1. The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, and uses of the simples as well as compounds ... — The general dispensatory, containing a translation of the pharmacopoeias of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with that of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, from the last edition. To which are added, the doses, virtues, andPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-3064.
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