Medical and chemical observations upon antimony / by John Huxham, M.D., F.R.S.

  • Huxham, John, 1692-1768
Date:
1767
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Credit: Medical and chemical observations upon antimony / by John Huxham, M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tain the reguline and fulphureous Parts of Antimony, may be fo incor¬ porated with fixed Alcali Salts, that the Whole, almoft, of any Quantity of Antimony, melted with about an equal Part of Salt of Tartar, or Pot- afhes, may be thus turned into a Kind of Sulphur Auratum, as it is called ; which is itfelf, in Truth, no other than a very fulphureous Crocus Antimonii. The Cohefion however of the Salt, Sulphur, and Regulus, in this hepatic Concrete, is eafily dif- folved by pouring an Acid to its So¬ lution in Water, which ftrongly at¬ tracting the alcaline Salt, the fulphu¬ reous and reguline Parts foon fall to the Bottom. Norarethefe latter very firmly united, as the alcalious Salt did, during the Flux, in fome Mea- fure detach the Antimonial Sulphur from the reguline Parts. It is evi¬ dent the Cohefion is but loofe; other- wife fo great a Proportion of Sulphur, as is found in the Sulphur Auratum, would,