Talk:Oil of brick
 | This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. |
Cleanup
[edit]That's nice. But this is a modern encyclopedia. This would be adequate if the existence of the obsolete enc entry were notable, and if the translation into modern English were obvious or provided. What are the meanings of these?:
- an earth half-saturated with olive oil
- pounded grossly
("Empyreumatic" means "being or having an odor of burnt organic matter as a result of decomposition at high temperatures". Probably not an encyclopedic topic, so i'm un-lk'g the word.)
I assume that resulting substance is not even a simple mixture of a few compounds, but what chemical characteristics could be predictably expected? Is the process well-defined enuf that the substances produced on different occasions are likely to be similar in any useful way and degree? -- I.e., is this process more than a ritual that makes those who carry it out feel like they've earned some result that they've been told to expect?
--Jerzy•t 17:55, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Bad ref
[edit]I am removing <ref name="webster">''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'' (1913)</ref> following
- distillation at a high temperature
and <ref name="webster"/> following
- by which stones and gems were sawn or cut
which is not an adequate reference, especially to a century-old work. If it's on-line, cite it that way, and in any case, say what entr(y/ies) in that dict are being used.
--Jerzy•t 18:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Possible Reference/Expansion
[edit]I tried to find some references to expand the article, but with little luck. However, I did come across a mention of a legal case involving the oil. The small snippet I saw could provide insight into the claims and usage of the substance (apparently, users were anointed with the oil), but I could not get access to the whole article, as it has been paywalled, and it would probably be improper to use a poorly sourced snippet. The article in question is from The Scotsman, dated 04/03/1864. Hopefully someone with more resources could gain access to the source and expand this page. The snippet I saw references a 1678 medical paper, but trying to find something with just that info would be significantly more difficult. StigmaOfTruth (talk) 03:42, 22 April 2023 (UTC)