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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 new domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1824), narrative-offset-1363868.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- APPENDIX: of purified quicksilver and honey, each half an ounce. Rub them together in a mortar, till the globules of mercury are perfectly ex- tinguished; then add, of Castile soap, two drachms; powdered liquorice, or crumb of bread, a sufficient quantity to
Method as extracted
- Mix according to the source passage: 1 he best method, however, of using, these pills is, to begin with one or two, and to increase the dose gradually, as far as the patient can bear them, without any remarkable de- gree of stupor or giddiness. Mercurial Pill. — Take of purified quicksilver and honey, each half an ounce. Rub them together in a mortar, till the globules of mercury are perfectly ex- tinguished; then add, of Castile soap, two drachms; powdered liquorice, or crumb of bread, a sufficient quantity to give the mass a proper consistence for pills.
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Primary and supporting references
- The new domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... — The new domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of DPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1363868.