Observations on antimony / read before the Medical Society of London. And published at their request. By John Millar, M.D.

  • Millar, John, 1733-1805.
Date:
MDCCLXXIV [1774]
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Credit: Observations on antimony / read before the Medical Society of London. And published at their request. By John Millar, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 23 3 But whatever may be their opinion concerning the effefts of crude anti-, mony, they are almoft unanimous in affirming, that it contains a portion of arfenic, which by different manage¬ ment, may be either converted into an efficacious remedy or a deadly poifon. * It is a fa£t, fays Hoffman, proved be¬ yond all doubt among the chymiffs, that antimony is compofed of fulphur and a mercurial or arfenical fubftance^. The fame is afferted by Stahl. Anti¬ mony, fays he, confifts of two or three mineral fubftances, fulphur, a portion of arfenic, and an imperfeft metallic matter. That arfenic enters its com- pofition is proved by the red tinge of fulphur of antimony ; its great power of vomiting, and that ficknefs of fto- * Cronftedt’s Effay toward a Syftem of Minera¬ logy, p. 223, 224. Stahl on the Arfenical Subftance of Antimony. Hoffman of the wonderful, virulent and medical powers of Antimony, and the eafy transition from one to the other. 4 Id. Ibid. mach