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The Edinburgh Receipt for Mat^ thevPs 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.

Documented in sourcePill PreparationPill RouteInternal use Plant recordClinopodium nepeta ↗

Pill

Pill is a source vocabulary term preserved from historical ethnobotanical literature. The original term is retained even when its modern meaning is broad or uncertain.

The intended use is stated in the extracted primary-source passage.

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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Historical use wording: Mat^ thevPs Pill

Source: A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects by Colborne, Robert (1756), paragraph-3085.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • RuJJta Caftor, two Ounces
  • Soap of Tar¬ tar, three Ounces, and Balfam of Capivi, a fufficient Quantity:
  • Storax-PilL Take of Calamita St or ax ftrained, two Ounces
  • Saffron, one Ounce, and Opium ftrained, five Drams :
  • St or ax Calamint, five Drams

Method as extracted

  1. Take RuJJta Caftor, two Ounces;
  2. Beat them into a Mafs.
  3. Beat them together till they are well mixed.
  4. Take St or ax Calamint, five Drams ;

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, promotion title hygiene failed, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, 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.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects — A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the hiPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-3085.
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