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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 manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics [electronic resource] by Yeo, I. Burney (Isaac Burney), 1835-1914; Marsh, J. H., active 1894 former owner; King's College London (1894), narrative-offset-467213.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • If we find: of a gentle saline aperient with a small dose of calomel. A powder composed of ^ grain of calomel with 2 or 3 grains of sugar of milk, and followed by 4 or 6 ounces of Dinneford’s fluid magnesia, to which a teaspoonful or two of lemon juice should be added, is as gentle an aperient as it is possible to

Method as extracted

  1. Grind according to the source passage: 23 of tliis kind should be administered every hour until complete relief has been obtained.* If we find that there is no longer any great local pain or tenderness, gentle manipulation- of the dis- tended bowel may serve to assist in dislodging any remaining impacted faeces ; and no harm can now arise from the use of a gentle saline aperient with a small dose of calomel. A powder composed of ^ grain of calomel with 2 or 3 grains of sugar of milk, and followed by 4 or 6 ounces of Dinneford’s fluid magnesia, to which a teaspoonful or two of lemon juice should be added, is as gentle an aperient as it is possible to give, and causes no excitement of the muscular wall of the intestine.

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

Professional review advised

Professional review is advised before any practical use of this preparation.

  • 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.
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. A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics [electronic resource] — A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics [electronic resource]Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-467213.
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