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PULVIS ARTHRITICUS DOVERT

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 contextAlterative PreparationPowder RouteInternal use Plant recordliquorice ↗

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Source: A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remedies by Ball, John, 1704?-1779 (1769), paragraph-1636.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • an ounce of opium, falt-petre, and tartar Vitriolated, each four ounces; ipecacoanha, one ounce; liquorice, one ounce
  • Cover up warm, and drink a quart or three pints of the poflet-drink while fweating, Dover highly extols it in violent fits of the gout,, and orders his patient, after taking it, to keepin bed till ngon next day ; and fays this remedy may be taken once a week, or once a month

Method as extracted

  1. Take an ounce of opium, falt-petre, and tartar Vitriolated, each four ounces; ipecacoanha, one ounce; liquorice, one ounce.
  2. Put the falt-petre and tartar into a red-hot mortar (or crucible) ftirring them with a fpoon till they have done flaming. ‘Then powder them very fine ; after that flice in your opium; grind thefe to a powder, ard then mix the other pow- ders with thefe.
  3. Cover up warm, and drink a quart or three pints of the poflet-drink while fweating, Dover highly extols it in violent fits of the gout,, and orders his patient, after taking it, to keepin bed till ngon next day ; and fays this remedy may be taken once a week, or once a month.

Live editorial status

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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: controlled or narcotic.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remedies — A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remediPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1636.
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