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

  • John Huxham
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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    / the Nitre in Part likewife burns off the Sulphur, but it is the Iron, that chiefly takes up the Sulphur, and unites with it into Scoria ; which, by-the-bye, finely powdered, and duly walhed, may be ufed with as good or a better Effedt, than the An- timonium Martiale Cachedticum of JLudovicus. I have repeatedly known it very ferviceable in a Leucophleg- matia, and an obftinate Fluor Albus. If crude Antimony is firft calcined by Fire, as for making the Glafs, or boiled repeatedly in frefh ftrong Lime-water, much of the Sulphur is carried off, and the Stibium, thus managed, yields much more Regu- lus in Proportion than if crude An¬ timony had been fluxed ; but the Salts, ufed in fuch Cafe, fhould be very considerably lefs in Quantity than in the common Method, and alfo previoufiy reduced to the black Flux. Monfieur Geoffroy fays, the incinerated Antimony, melted with C 3 about