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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    tile, as well with refpeft to its virvt* lence, as the means of corre&ing it: * Orpimenty fays he, from which a perfect arfenic is obtainable in notable quantityy is when it participates more largely of ful- phur9 almoft perfectly innocent ; and ful- phur, which refrains the power of the antimonial femimetaly remarkably abates the \virulence of this poifonous mineral alfo §. Poppius affirms, that an impure, bituminous and arfenical fulphur, nox¬ ious to the eyes, nofe, and lungs, with a blue flame and arfenical fmell, which cannot be endured without danger, is raifed during the calcination or fubli- mation of antimony J. Glauber alfo directs antimonial cups to be made for the purpofe of communi¬ cating an emetic quality to acid liquors, which according to him produce the fame effects as thofe prepared from or- § New Difpenfatory, p, 85 and 86. J Bafilica Antimonii, in the Appendix to Hart¬ man’s Chymiftry, p. 896. piment