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Tincture of Iodine (Colourless)

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 PreparationTincture 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.
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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: Cooley's Cyclopædia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy [electronic resource] : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopœia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families by Cooley, Arnold J. (Arnold James); North, W. (William) (1892), paragraph-17708.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Iodine, 10 oz
  • Digest with gentle heat, occasionally shaking; and when the solution is completed, add liquor ammonias ('960), 16 oz. (by weight), shake to- gether, and add rectified spirit, 75 oz. (by weight)
  • Keep the mixture in a warm place until decolourised, after which dilute it with rectified spirit sufficient to produce 1 pint

Method as extracted

  1. Pour this upon a muslin strainer, press the liquid out, and measure it.
  2. Mix the solid residue with enough alcohol to make the measure of a pint when united with the first expression, then press the liquor out mix it with that first obtained, and filter the tincture through paper.
  3. Dissolve by the aid of a gentle heat.
  4. Keep the mixture in a warm place until decolourised, after which dilute it with rectified spirit sufficient to produce 1 pint.

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, quality score below 70, not herbal remedy, 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: corrosive or toxic chemical.
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. Cooley's Cyclopædia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy [electronic resource] : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopœia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families — Cooley's Cyclopædia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy [electronic resource] : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopœiPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-17708.
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