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Powder of Chalk

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.

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Piscicide

Piscicide is retained as a hazardous, toxicological or harmful-use term. It is presented for completeness and research, never as a practical instruction.

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: The London dispensatory by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849 (1811), narrative-offset-2175866.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Chalk: of compound powder of chalk, six ounces and a half; hard opium powered, four scruples

Method as extracted

  1. Grind according to the source passage: Rub them together to a powder.” The London preparation, owins to the larger proportion of aromatics it:contains, and the addition of the tormentil root, is better adapted for checking diarrhoea connected with acidity of the prime viz, than the Edinburgh powder, which maybe regarded as a simple but grateful antacid. ‘The dose is from gers. v to Dj, given generally in the form of mixture rubbed up with mucilage and some distilled water. PULVIS CRET® COMPOSITUS CUM OPIO. a, Compound Powder of Chalk with Opium. «© Take of compound powder of chalk, six ounces and a half; hard opium powered, four scruples.

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, 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

Do not self-use. The record remains public for historical, botanical and hazard research.

  • 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

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. The London dispensatory — The London dispensatoryPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-2175866.
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