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Syrup of tolu

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 PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use

No specific intended use is stated in the extracted passage

The extracted preparation passage does not state a specific intended use.

It documentsA historical source passage and its preparation structure.
It does not establishModern effectiveness, an individual dose, diagnosis or personal suitability.
Use relationship map

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Use not stated in the extracted passage.

The preparation remains searchable as an archival method record without an invented indication.

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: Modern domestic medicine: : a popular treatise, illustrating the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame; embracing the modern improvements in medicine. To which are added, a domestic materia medica; a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c. The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen heads, [sic] of families, and invalids. by Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876. n 85029309 (1835), narrative-offset-290636.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • tolu: of subcarbonate of potash, a scruple; lemon juice , half an ounce; spearmint water, an ounce and a half; laudanum, or Battle fs solution of opium , thirty or forty drops; syrup of tolu , a drachm

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: This is a proper form for exhibiting those liquid medicines in the dose of which it is necessary to be exact, and such other remedies as are intended to operate immediately, and do not need to be frequently repeated, as narcotics, purges, and vomits. Anodyne and Sleeping Draught. Take of subcarbonate of potash, a scruple; lemon juice , half an ounce; spearmint water, an ounce and a half; laudanum, or Battle fs solution of opium , thirty or forty drops; syrup of tolu , a drachm.

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. Modern domestic medicine: : a popular treatise, illustrating the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame; embracing the modern improvements in medicine. To which are added, a domestic materia medica; a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c. The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen heads, [sic] of families, and invalids. — Modern domestic medicine: : a popular treatise, illustrating the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame; embracing the modern improvements in medicine. To which are added, a domestic materia medicaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-290636.
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