Powder of Camphor two drachms

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: A laboratory course of pharmacy and materia medica : including the principles and practice of dispensing ; adapted to the study of the British Pharmacopoeia and the requirements of the private student by Elborne, William; University of Leeds. Library (1890), materia-203-9.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Camphor two drachms: Observations. — Reduce the myrrh to powder, add the bircarbonate of potassium and sugar, and triturate them with a small quantity of the water so as to form a thin paste ; continuing the trituration, slowly dilute with more water to the volume of about four fluid ounces, and strain through muslin ; to the strained milky liquid add in small quantities at a time (with agitation) the sulphate of iron previously dissolve

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: Observations. — Reduce the myrrh to powder, add the bircarbonate of potassium and sugar, and triturate them with a small quantity of the water so as to form a thin paste ; continuing the trituration, slowly dilute with more water to the volume of about four fluid ounces, and strain through muslin ; to the strained milky liquid add in small quantities at a time (with agitation) the sulphate of iron previously dissolved in an ounce of water, and make the mixture up to six ounces with water.

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, promotion title hygiene failed, not marked promotable, critical hazard archive only. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.