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Historical source record Skin, wounds & external care

Unguentum Antipforicum, cum Mercuric, Ointment for the Itch, with Mercury

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 sourceItch PreparationOintment RouteTopical use Plant recordBlitum bonus-henricus ↗

Itch

Itch is the condition or symptom label preserved in the historical source data. The label may be older, broader or less precise than current diagnostic terminology.

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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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.

Historical use wording: the Itch, with Mercury

Source: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1740), paragraph-1881.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • This is made of the preceding Ointment, by adding thereto four ounces of Qmckfilver, kill’d by being ground with a proper quantity of Venice Turpentine, and mixing them toge¬ ther according to the rules of art, fo as to make an Unguent

Method as extracted

    Live editorial status

    This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, quality score below 70, generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, missing instructions, 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: toxic metal or mineral, 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. Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh — Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in EdinburghPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1881.
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