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.
This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗ Related plant contextThis use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation passage.
↗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
- 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.
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.
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
- The London dispensatory — The London dispensatoryPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-2175866.