Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.
This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.
The preparation remains searchable as an archival method record without an invented indication.
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: The prescriber's analysis of the British Pharmacopoeia by Nevins, John Birkbeck; University of Leeds. Library (1865), monograph-offset-163913-1.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Silicate of Soda: From the character of the motions it produces, it has been styled " Vegetable Mercury." It acts more favour- ably when combined with a small dose of some other purgative, such as Ehubarb or .Aloes, and as far as I have observed, it is not liable to be followed by con- stipation, which renders it a usefid ingredient in an " Aiitibilious Pill " for persons who are not content without this kind of medicine on their toil
Method as extracted
- Mix according to the source passage: From the character of the motions it produces, it has been styled " Vegetable Mercury." It acts more favour- ably when combined with a small dose of some other purgative, such as Ehubarb or .Aloes, and as far as I have observed, it is not liable to be followed by con- stipation, which renders it a usefid ingredient in an " Aiitibilious Pill " for persons who are not content without this kind of medicine on their toilet table. Dose, gr. -J to gr. ss as a mild aperient, gr. ss to gi\ i or gr. ii as a drastic cathartic.
Live editorial status
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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: toxic metal or mineral.
Primary wording. Visible interpretation. No borrowed certainty.
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Primary and supporting references
- The prescriber's analysis of the British Pharmacopoeia — The prescriber's analysis of the British PharmacopoeiaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at monograph-offset-163913-1.