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Purgative Pill

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.

Use not statedUse not stated PreparationPill RouteInternal use

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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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Use not stated in the extracted passage.

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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 household book of practical receipts, in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy ... by Reynolds, Susannah Frances; Hall, William E; University of Leeds. Library (1847), paragraph-5320.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Calomel, three grains; compound rhubarb pill, ten grains
  • Or, jalap and rhubarb, of each three grains ; calomel, two grains
  • After which, give the following : — Sulphate of quinine, two scruples ; aro- matic confection, one draclnn
  • To one gallon best white French or pickling vinegar add twenty lemons ; take one ounce bay salt, one ounce peeled garlic, quarter of an ounce cayenne pepper, halt an ounce white pepper, one ounce mace, one good nutmeg, two ounces white mustard seed, all well pow- dered together in a mortar

Method as extracted

  1. Mix for a powder, to be taken immediately.
  2. Mix and divide into twenty pills; three to be taken morning, noon, and night, and continued for four or five days, and repeated afterwards at intervals, to ensure success.
  3. Cut each lemon half w'ay through with a knife, divide the powdered ingredients equally in the twenty lemons, squeezing it into the middle of them.
  4. Place them in an earthen dish large enough to lay them single.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, 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, high risk botanical.
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 household book of practical receipts, in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy ... — The household book of practical receipts, in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy ...Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-5320.
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