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Historical source record Pain, inflammation & musculoskeletal

A camphor ate Electuary

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 contextToothache PreparationCordial RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamomum camphora ↗

Toothache

Toothache 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.

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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Use relationship map

Exact source claims and related context are never blended together.

This hierarchy shows why a use appears beside the preparation. The strongest relationship comes first; contextual links remain explicitly labeled.

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 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-3844.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • Conferve of Rue, three Ounces
  • Ve- nice-xxtzcl^y one Ounce
  • Oil of Nut¬ megs, two Drops ; of Cloves and Cinnamon, each a Drop:
  • Conferve of Gilly-flowers, three Ounces
  • Conferve of Barberries, and Juice of Kermes (trained, of each half an Ounce, and Pearls levigated, four Scruples :
  • powdered golden Rod, Vervain, Sa¬ vory, Marjoram, Thyme, and An- nil'ecd, of each a Dram ; common Refin, fix Drams

Method as extracted

  1. Take Conferve of Rue, three Ounces ;
  2. Mix them.
  3. Take powdered golden Rod, Vervain, Sa¬ vory, Marjoram, Thyme, and An- nil'ecd, of each a Dram ; common Refin, fix Drams ;

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: 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: high risk botanical.
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. 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-3844.
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