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Plaster of Vinegar of Squill

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 contextBowel PreparationPlaster RouteTopical use Plant recordSpinacia oleracea ↗

Bowel

Bowel is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

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: Observations, chemical and practical, on the Dublin Pharmacopoeia by Barker, F. n 89605289; Montgomery, Wm. F (1830), monograph-offset-925331-5.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Vinegar of Squill: of diluents and fomentations of warm milk and water to the blis¬ tered part, after the removal of the blister

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Where ulceration has followed the use of a blister, the best application is a warm emollient poultice, and afterwards I think the black wash is serviceable. Another inconvenience sometimes experienced from the use of a blister, is irritation of the bladder and strangury, to prevent which, camphor mixed with the plaster, or sprinked over its surface, has been recom¬ mended; but it is not found effectual for the purpose, which is better accomplished by the free use of diluents and fomentations of warm milk and water to the blis¬ tered part, after the removal of the blister.

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, quality score below 70, 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: high risk botanical.
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. Observations, chemical and practical, on the Dublin Pharmacopoeia — Observations, chemical and practical, on the Dublin PharmacopoeiaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at monograph-offset-925331-5.
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