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Historical source record Immune, infection & fever

Fever Mixture

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 contextAntiseptic PreparationTincture RouteInternal use Plant recordCinnamomum camphora ↗

Antiseptic

Antiseptic is a historical action or property term used in ethnobotanical literature. It describes reported intent, not a verified pharmacological effect.

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: Modern domestic medicine ... to which is added a domestic materia medica by Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876. n 85029309 (1832), paragraph-1028.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • of subcarbonate of potash, two drachms; purified nitre, thirty grains; camphor mixture, six ounces; syrup of saffron, three drachms
  • Mix, and for a dose take two table-spoonfuls, which should be mixed with an equal quantity of water, and a table-spoonful of lemon-juice, or twenty-five grains of tartaric acid, and drank immediately
  • of infusion of columba, five ounces and a half; com- pound tincture of cinnamon, two drachms; syrup of orange peel, two drachms

Method as extracted

  1. Take of subcarbonate of potash, two drachms; purified nitre, thirty grains; camphor mixture, six ounces; syrup of saffron, three drachms.
  2. Mix, and for a dose take two table-spoonfuls, which should be mixed with an equal quantity of water, and a table-spoonful of lemon-juice, or twenty-five grains of tartaric acid, and drank immediately.
  3. Take of infusion of columba, five ounces and a half; com- pound tincture of cinnamon, two drachms; syrup of orange peel, two drachms.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: generic title requires manual verification, promotion title hygiene score below 90, 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: corrosive or toxic chemical, high risk botanical.
Sources & editorial standard

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Modern domestic medicine ... to which is added a domestic materia medica — Modern domestic medicine ... to which is added a domestic materia medicaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1028.
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