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Historical source record Digestive & gastrointestinal

Wax-plaster, a pound and a half

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.

Related plant contextCarminative PreparationPlaster RouteTopical use Plant recordBlack pepper ↗

Carminative

A traditional action term for aromatic preparations associated with gas and digestive discomfort.

This use is documented for the same plant in a separate source; it is not claimed by this preparation 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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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: A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica by Royal College of Physicians of London (1848), paragraph-2769.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of Venice-turpentine, 44 ounces
  • Rurgundy-pitch, and Cantharides, of each three ounces
  • Wax, one ounce
  • White-mustard seed, and Black-pepper, of each two drachms

Method as extracted

  1. Melt the fats (and plaster, L.) together, remove from the heat, sprinkle in the cantharides, and stir briskly as the mixture concretes in cooling.
  2. Take of Venice-turpentine, 44 ounces ;
  3. Melt the wax and Burgundy-pitch, add the turpentine, and while the mixture is hot sprinkle into it the remaining articles previously in fine |>owder and mixed to- gether.
  4. Stir the whole briskly as it con- cretes in cooling.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: primary taxon poison flag, 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

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  • 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, high risk botanical.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica — A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medicaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-2769.
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