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Tincture of opium or a tea

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Historical use wording: the hooping cough

Source: The medical directory : or, family physician ... Which contains an appendix and dispensatory . by Bullman, E; University of Glasgow. Library (1810), narrative-offset-340600.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • opium or a tea: of moss cups, an ounce

Method as extracted

  1. Macerate according to the source passage: Decoction, Take of moss cups, an ounce : boil in a pint of milk, strain, sweeten with honey or sugar : dose, two table spoonfuls every three hours : or this in- fusion, take millipedes, an ounce : bruise them and infuse in half a pint of white wine, let them stand twenty-four hours : strain and give three or four Of the Croup. tea spoonfuls every three hours : if the cough is violent,, two or three drops of tincture of opium or a tea spoonful of sirup of poppies, may be given at bed time: the body should be kept open with small doses of infusion of senna, sirup of buck- thorn, or rhubarb. Grown persons who have this disease, may take an emetic, and if of a plethoric habit, may have ten or twelve ounces of blood let from the arm, afterwards take one tea spoonful of the grand balsam of mecca in a wine glass of cold water, twice or three times a day: children may take from twenty to thirty drops in cold water once a day, which will radically cure the hooping cough.

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

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, pediatric or infant use.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. The medical directory : or, family physician ... Which contains an appendix and dispensatory . — The medical directory : or, family physician ... Which contains an appendix and dispensatory .Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-340600.
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